Gather: The Fight to Revitalize Our Native Foodways

Sanjay Rawal/2020/83 min/Food & Agriculture, Historical Perspectives, People & Cultures, Social Justice

FILM DESCRIPTION: “Gather” is an intimate portrait of the growing movement among Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. “Gather” follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an Indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.

Saturday, March 6, 3 to 5:30 p.m. Central Standard Time

Please stay for post-film discussion with:

Facilitator Maddie Oatman, Senior Editor & Writer, Mother Jones Magazine; host and producer of Mother Jones' food politics podcast, "Bite."

Panelists:

• Danielle Hill, Founder, Heron-Hill LLC; appears in Gather

• Kayleigh Warren, Communications Coordinator, Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance

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This event is sponsored by:

Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods

First United Church of Oak Park: As good stewards of Mother Earth, we encourage others to join us in the Illinois Monarch Project.

Mother Jones

Walter S. Mander Foundation: Organic waste is the second highest component of landfills in the US and the largest source of methane emissions. One way to waste less food is to grow your own vegetables.