{"product_id":"a-drum-in-one-hand-a-sockeye-in-the-other-stories-of-indigenous-food-sovereignty-from-the-northwest-coast-9780295749525","title":"A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Donald L. Fixico Award for most innovative book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations History from the Western History Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonorable Mention for the 15th Annual Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForegrounds the importance of Indigenous food in cultural revitalization and healing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaʕas and miʕaat are central to the sacred food practices that have been a crucial part of the Indigenous community's efforts to enact food sovereignty, decolonize their diet, and preserve their ancestral knowledge. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other\u003c\/i\u003e, Charlotte Cot? shares contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of broader efforts to re-Indigenize contemporary diets on the Northwest Coast. Cot? offers evocative stories of her Tseshaht community's and her own work to revitalize relationships to haʔum (traditional food) as a way to nurture health and wellness. As Indigenous peoples continue to face food insecurity due to ongoing inequality, environmental degradation, and the Westernization of traditional diets, Cot? foregrounds healing and cultural sustenance via everyday enactments of food sovereignty: berry picking, salmon fishing, and building a community garden on reclaimed residential school grounds. This book is for everyone concerned about the major role food plays in physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Coté\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in American Indian studies at the University of Washington and author of \u003ci\u003eSpirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631773552914,"sku":"9780295749525","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4982f1bc-aaa1-41b1-92e4-2ba619651197.jpg?v=1732782812","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-drum-in-one-hand-a-sockeye-in-the-other-stories-of-indigenous-food-sovereignty-from-the-northwest-coast-9780295749525","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}