Braiding Indigenous Pathways with the Indigenous Early Years Kinship
Brew a cup of tea, take a deep breath, and sit in circle with your cousins from the Indigenous Early Years Kinship. Our kinship consists of Indigenous Educators from many different Nations who work in both rural and urban Indigenous communities with young children and their families.
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Episodes
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Members of the Indigenous Early Years Kinship (formerly FNPN) talk about their experiences with and vision for food sovereignty and security, with consideration for what we see and experience in our communities and early learning spaces. Here is a list of additional resources we explored as part of this conversation:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/how-food-in-canada-is-tied-to-land-language-community-and-colonization-1.5989764/the-dark-history-of-canada-s-food-guide-how-experiments-on-indigenous-children-shaped-nutrition-policy-1.5989785
Grinding Stone Collective
https://www.sovereignseeds.org/about
‘A Guide to Your Baby’s First Foods’
https://www.fnha.ca/Documents/Traditional_Food_Fact_Sheets.pdf
https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/Right_to_food.pdfdcast
Who Controls the Hunt?: First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939 Hardcover – March 1 2018.
Canning/preservation of foods – link to Shauna’s Series
https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthlinkbc-files/babys-first-foods
https://www.svns.ca/farm-animals.html
https://nativefoodalliance.org/our-programs-2/indigenous-seedkeepers-network/
https://thediscourse.ca/author/jared
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QE0cg_ycnJfgzV-fu_LuA
https://www.firstthingsfirst.org/2021/10/reintroducing-traditional-indigenous-foods-to-keep-young-children-healthy-in-body-mind-and-spirit/
fpc_20190614-en.pdf (canada.ca)
The Food Policy for Canada - agriculture.canada.ca
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Members of the Indigenous Early Years Kinship (formerly FNPN) talk about their experiences with and vision for the practice of land acknowledgments in education and in particular, early learning spaces. Here is a list of additional resources we explored as part of this conversation:
https://nativegov.org/news/beyond-land-acknowledgment-series/
A Lido TV spoof of land acknowledgements (starts at 13:30, but the whole episode on Colonialism is fantastic if you have time): https://gem.cbc.ca/media/lido-tv/s01e01
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/west-vancouver-land-acknowledgments
The topics discussed in this podcast bring together the voices of FNPN to discuss and reflect on topics that are important to the communities where they live and work.
You will find links and references to the resources mentioned in each episode at the end of the podcast, however, please do not hesitate to reach out and contact FNPN members should you wish to extend the conversations shared here.