{"id":54353,"date":"2020-07-24T06:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54353"},"modified":"2020-07-24T06:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:42:04","slug":"how-canadas-oilsands-city-is-supporting-indigenous-food-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54353","title":{"rendered":"How Canada\u2019s Oilsands City Is Supporting Indigenous Food Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/07\/24\/How-Canada-Oilsands-City-Supports-Indigenous-Food-Sovereignty\/\">How Canada\u2019s Oilsands City Is Supporting Indigenous Food Sovereignty<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A new M\u00e9tis Cultural Centre in Fort McMurray aims to revive traditional practices in an urban setting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/07\/23\/COVER.Garden.jpg\" alt=\"COVER.Garden.jpg\"\/><figcaption>\u2018The garden has become a place where people begin to reclaim their land literacy,\u2019 says the director Indigenous Research Partnerships at UBC, and that\u2019s why projects like the M\u00e9tis Cultural Centre are meaningful.&nbsp;Photo by Olivia Szostek, UBC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Genevieve Noel was in the room when Fort McMurray city councillors&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymcmurray.com\/2020\/06\/10\/proposed-metis-cultural-centre-gets-ok-from-rmwb-council\/\">voted unanimously<\/a>&nbsp;last month to provide almost eight acres for a M\u00e9tis Cultural Centre.<a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/07\/24\/How-Canada-Oilsands-City-Supports-Indigenous-Food-Sovereignty\/#series-listview-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noel, a M\u00e9tis woman and designer, said she had goosebumps as the votes were counted. The $22-million project offers a chance to reconnect with her Indigenous identity, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that includes exploring Indigenous food sovereignty as a solution to food insecurity, climate chaos and loss of culture, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs we were reconnecting with Indigenous culture, it just was so evident to me that the wisdom of traditional Indigenous culture is the way forward. We really need to embrace the Earth and really reconnect,\u201d she said. \u201cThe spirituality was another layer that I really appreciate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noel and her husband Maginnis Cocivera are founders of Mindful Homes, a North Vancouver architecture firm that hopes to facilitate \u201ca seamless transition to the post-carbon era in response to climate change.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/support.thetyee.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The&nbsp;Tyee&nbsp;is&nbsp;supported by&nbsp;readers&nbsp;like&nbsp;you&nbsp;Join us and grow independent&nbsp;media in&nbsp;Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The firm has been selected by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mcmurraymetis.org\/\">McMurray M\u00e9tis<\/a>&nbsp;to design the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to work with them and help bring all these things back,\u201d Noel said. \u201cIt\u2019s really a nice healing process to bring community together, and we want to present the project that way, like we\u2019re all moving forward together, we\u2019re not leaving anybody behind, and people can learn to live together again in a more positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Canada\u2019s Oilsands City Is Supporting Indigenous Food Sovereignty A new M\u00e9tis Cultural Centre in Fort McMurray aims to revive traditional practices in an urban setting. Genevieve Noel was in the room when Fort McMurray city councillors&nbsp;voted unanimously&nbsp;last month to provide almost eight acres for a M\u00e9tis Cultural Centre. Noel, a M\u00e9tis woman and designer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[1943,30081,30082,3540,5499],"class_list":["post-54353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-food-sovereignty","tag-metis-cultural-centre","tag-missy-johnson","tag-oilsands","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54354,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54353\/revisions\/54354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}