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Illustration 1. Winter hunting lodge All images courtesy of Choctaw Nation Moderator’s Note: In our continuing series on indigenous food and seed sovereignty we present a contribution drawn from a larger series by the Choctaw Nation on indigenous foods and foodways. We thank our colleague Brit Reed for bringing this work to our attention. The original can be found at Choctaw Nation . One lesson I draw from this wisdom is the resilience built into foodways that are adapted to seasonal and other ecological changes, including those introduced by contact and exchanges with settler colonial forces. Deep food rooted in land, water, and vibrant matter INDIGENOUS ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT Choctaw Nation | Durant, OK | January 20, 2016 [this post] Choctaw society developed out of a long and intimate relationship with the plants, animals, soil, and water of our homeland in the southeast. Through this relationship, Choctaw ancestors engineered a food way that minimized their risk of going hungry by re...

Moderator’s Note: As has become customary, I am posting a selection of student research notes and essays prepared for a political ecology seminar I teach during fall quarter at the University of Washington. Taught as an advanced reading and discussion seminar, the course involves heavy reading loads and weekly writing aimed at development of analytical and critical skills. All of the students prepared a total of eight (8) critical reading summaries. They also produced the essays presented here which are synthesized from quarter-long topical research projects and presented in the form of a series of 2000-word posts. Some of these posts are autobiographical in nature and draw from personal life histories and experiences – but they are not self-indulgent empty exercises in navel gazing. The students of the so-called Millennial Generation are critical realists not because it might be an intellectual fad but as a matter of historical and structural circumstances. This is a group of seriou...