Indigenous Communities and the Social Economy: Cross Border Food Security
In Partnership with the University of Saskatchewan and the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, AICBR contributed to an investigation of the social and political dimensions of food security in the Gwitchin Nation, which is divided legally and physically by the US/Canada border.
AICBR specifically investigated:
- How political and legal restrictions relating to cross-border travel have affected subsistence harvesting
- How political and legal restrictions relating to cross-border travel have affected traditional/contemporary food sharing networks among the Vuntut Gwitchin and Gwitchin communities in Alaska
- How political and legal restrictions related to cross-border travel have affected cultural exchange and spiritual aspects of food sharing.