Webinar – Apr 14, 2017

Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Connection with land-based language

 

Presenter: Byron Beardy

 

Byron Beardy is from Wasagamack First Nation in the Island Lake region of North Eastern Manitoba.  As the Food Security Coordinator for Four Arrows Regional Health Authority Inc., he is actively involved in indigenous food sovereignty and security practices from the local to the national level.  Byron also provides Ojibway-Cree translation, narration, transcription services for a variety of agencies throughout Manitoba.  In this webinar, Byron will discuss his understandings of the connections of land-based language in the context of food from an indigenous lens.

 

Date

April 14, 2017

 

Category

#PEKEwebinars

 

Tags

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