Food Sovereignty

‘No fish means no food’: how Yurok women are fighting for their tribe’s nutritional health (theguardian.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 10/9/2110:22 AM

Keeping salmon in her children’s diet is “an entire job”, says Georgiana Gensaw, a Yurok Tribe member and mother of four in Klamath Glen, California , a community whose only easily accessible food store is a fried chicken shop attached to a gas station a few miles away. The nearest grocery store, Safeway in Crescent City, lies 24 miles away along a stretch of road frequently plagued by landslides and toppled redwoods – last summer it was closed for 20 hours a day after a washout – making...

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