Category: Food Security

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Across Indigenous communities, women are the heart of traditional medicine. The Fourth World Journal invites submissions that honor their healing knowledge, resilience, and leadership. Share your research, reflections, or community-based experiences by August 1, 2025.

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The United States executive branch under the Trump-Vance administration (tva) is attempting to obliterate not just the futures of Americans, but the entire world. Let me explain. I was to…

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Post-Colonial Violence, Indigenous Women, and Traditional Medicine The relationship between violence against Indigenous women and traditional medicine is deeply rooted in historical, cultural, and systemic forces. Across many Indigenous nations,…

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The Fourth World Journal invites submissions for a special edition on Indigenous women in traditional medicine. This issue will explore their critical role in health, resistance, and environmental sustainability. Scholars, practitioners, and activists are encouraged to contribute studies, narratives, and policy analyses highlighting Indigenous knowledge systems and decolonial healthcare approaches.

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Introducing another of our accomplished authors, we have Robert Hansell’s “Indigenous Food Sovereignty: A Thematic & Case Study Literature Review.” We are thrilled to publish a piece that resonates so…

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What is the link between the wellbeing and autonomy of indigenous peoples and animal poaching, along with the introduction of sugar, refined and canned foods, salts and preservatives? Read about the history of the buffalo nation and what they did about it.

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The wampis community is conserving the lakes in their lands, and rejecting introduced foods to rescue their traditional heritage by returning to natural food such as wild fish, free range chicken, fruits and vegetables.

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A network of indigenous corn keepers are assisting Indigenous Nations in Turtle Island by uniting them with sacred seeds and traditional food sources.

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Wild Berries for Winter Health By Elise Krohn Elise@cwis.org CWIS Fellow for Native Plants and Nutrition We are in the thick of winter. It has been cold and rainy for…

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Fourth World peoples frequently live in the most remote regions of the world making up a major portion of the non-urban population. Significantly, the diversity of Fourth World peoples’ locations…