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Tseshaht
An Indigenous First Nation belonging to the Nuu-chah-nulth-aht, now centered on the Somass River.
Potlatch
A central cultural, social, and political ceremony hosted by chiefs involving feasting, gift-giving, and reinforcing reciprocity.
Food as Medicine
An Indigenous cultural concept promoting a holistic approach to health by maintaining the ecosystems that provide nourishment.
First Salmon Ceremony
An annual ritual honoring the return of the salmon spirit where bones are returned to the water to ensure future runs.
Ecosystem role of salmon
Bears drag salmon into forests, leaving uneaten parts that decompose and provide vital marine nitrogen for plant and tree growth.
Nutritional health benefits of wild salmon
High in protein and rich in omega-3 fatty acids, reducing the risks of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and inflammation.
13-Moon Calendar
Tseshaht traditional ecological system where moons are named for seasonal harvesting, hunting, and fishing activities.
Indigenous salmon management evidence
Oral histories showing communities sustained populations by transplanting salmon eggs and altering rivers for spawning.
Papermill Dam
The specific location on the river where the Tseshaht hold their weekly community Fish Day every Sunday in the summer.
Tseshaht Fish Day purpose
A communal harvesting event to catch and distribute sockeye salmon while strengthening family bonds and passing down knowledge.
Traditional learning style
Acquiring cultural knowledge and skills strictly through watching, observation, and hands-on practice rather than written notes.
Potlatch Ban (1884–1951)
A Canadian law making it a crime to hold or participate in a Potlatch, enforced as an attempt to control and assimilate coastal peoples.
Capitalism impact on Fish Day
Commercial fish buyers parking close to the river tempts individuals to sell fish for quick money instead of taking it home to process is an example of what?
Modern processing shift
Working parents sometimes pay commercial non-Native processing plants to jar or smoke fish due to modern time constraints.
2009 Nuu-chah-nulth Lawsuit
A landmark legal victory affirming the cultural right of eight First Nations to trade, barter, and sell fish from their territories.
Industrial pollution, pipelines, hydroelectric dams, climate change, ocean acidification, and open-water fish farms.
Environmental threats to wild salmon are:
Atlantic salmon aquaculture risks
Cramped open-water net pens cause disease transmission, while chemical runoff and antibiotics contaminate local wild ecosystems.
2017 Washington fish farm collapse
An environmental disaster where a pen collapsed, releasing over 300,000 invasive Atlantic salmon, leading to regional fish farm phase-outs.
Decolonizing the diet
Overcoming health issues by rejecting commercial store-bought foods and returning to traditional, wild meats and salmon.
Communities, peoples, and nations having historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies, considering themselves distinct from prevailing sectors of society, forming non-dominant sectors, and determined to preserve their ancestral territories and ethnic identity.
Martinez Cobo Working Definition
On an individual basis, an indigenous person is one who belongs to indigenous populations through self-identification (group consciousness) and is accepted by the group.
Cobo Report Self-Identification
The right of indigenous peoples to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions is what article of UNDRIP
Article 33 of UNDRIP
Adopted by the UN General Assembly on September 13, 2007.
UNDRIP Adoption Date
CANZUS; Canada, Australia, United States, and New Zealand.
The four states that voted against UNDRIP in 2007:
Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development.
Article 3 of UNDRIP
Globalization
Legislation passed by the BC Legislature in November 2019 to affirm the application of the Declaration to provincial laws and support relationships with Indigenous governing bodies.
DRIPA (Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act)
The anthropological view that the San have lived successfully in a harsh environment, hunting and gathering for centuries, and that changes to their way of life are recent.
Kalahari Debate: Traditionalists
The anthropological view that the San have long been part of the broader southern African economy and society (as an oppressed underclass) engaging in wage labor, herding, or farming.
Kalahari Debate: Revisionists
Specifies the right of Bushmen to be in the CKGR and imposes restrictions against entry to non-Bushmen.
Article 14.3 of the Botswana Constitution
A Maasai activist and politician who addressed the UN Working Group in 1989, reframing Maasai land claims and cultural self-determination in the language of Indigenous rights.
Moringe Ole Parkipuny
A wildlife hunting company from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that acquired a license in Tanzania's Loliondo region, leading to conflicts and forced evictions of Maasai pastoralists.
Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC)
The right of Indigenous peoples to define, control, and produce their own culturally appropriate foods based on traditional knowledge and sustainable ecosystems.
What is Indigenous food sovereignty?
It establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity, and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world and recognizes their collective rights.
What is the primary significance of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)?
The United Nations General Assembly
Which international body adopted UNDRIP in September 2007?
Free, Prior, and Informed Consent.
What does FPIC stand for in the context of Indigenous rights and UNDRIP?
By asserting pre-existing Aboriginal title, treaty rights, and sovereignty that were never extinguished by colonization or state laws.
How do Indigenous land claims and litigation typically challenge state sovereignty?
It encompasses generations of empirical observations and management practices that ensure sustainable harvesting, biodiversity, and ecosystem resilience.
Why is traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) crucial for Indigenous food sovereignty?
High financial costs, lengthy legal processes, and the burden of proving continuous occupation according to Euro-centric legal standards.
What major barrier do Indigenous communities often face in domestic courts during land claims litigation?
Collective rights protect the survival, culture, and self-determination of a group as a distinct people, whereas individual human rights focus solely on the person.
What is one key distinction between individual human rights and the collective rights affirmed in UNDRIP?
By altering traditional migration patterns of wildlife, disrupting seasonal harvesting times, and causing environmental degradation in ancestral territories.
How does climate change impact Indigenous food sovereignty?
They provide advocacy, legal support, documentation of human rights abuses, and pressure on nation-states to comply with international standards.
What role do international human rights bodies and NGOs play in supporting Indigenous litigation?
Calder et al v. A.G.B.C. (1973)
A landmark Canadian case that changed the federal government’s assessment of aboriginal title.
Specifies the right of the Bushmen to be in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) and imposes restrictions against entry on non-Bushmen.
Article 14.3 of the Botswana Constitution (1966)
144
4
The number of UN member states that voted against UNDRIP
1965
The year the UN adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.
Chair of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP). 1984-2001
UNDRIP
_______________; negotiated for 25 years and passed in September 2007 by the UNGA with a vote of 144 to 4
FPIC
_____________; requires that states obtain consent without coercion, engage early in planning, and ensure communities understand potential impacts
__________; supported indigenous activism and helped facilitate participation in UN forums
IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs)
Which Hunter-gatherers and mixed economy groups living in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, historically subjected to authenticity tests and forced sedentarization?