Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-5r2nc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-23T02:30:46.325Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

12 - Native American Food Sovereignty and Youth Entrepreneurship

from Part IV - From Learning to Doing: Examples of Entrepreneurship in Indian Country

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2019

By
Raymond Foxworth ,
Krystal Langholz  and
Vena A-dae Romero-Briones
Edited by
Robert J. Miller ,
Miriam Jorgensen  and
Daniel Stewart
Robert J. Miller
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Miriam Jorgensen
Affiliation:
Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona
Daniel Stewart
Affiliation:
Gonzaga University, Washington
Get access

Summary

There is a budding food sovereignty movement taking place in Native American communities. An important part of this movement includes the development of food and agricultural businesses by Native nations and by individual farmers and ranchers. This chapter examines the history of Native American food systems and one particular element of the Native American food sovereignty movement, the Native American youth-led movement to develop social enterprises around Native American food and food systems. The chapter demonstrates that the food sovereignty movement in Native communities is an important contributor to Native American youth and enterprise development – and vice versa.

Keywords

Native American youthfood sovereigntyfood systemsyouth enterprise developmentsocial enterpriseyouth entrepreneurship
Type
Chapter
Information
Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America
Sustainable Development through Entrepreneurship
 , pp. 206 - 217
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bailey, Z. D., Krieger, N., Agénor, M., Graves, J., Linos, N., and Bassett, M. T. (2017). “Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the USA: Evidence and Interventions.” The Lancet, 389 (10077), 1453–63.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bauer, K. W., Widome, R., Himes, J. H., Smyth, M., Rock, B. H., Hannan, P. J., and Story, M. (2012). “High Food Insecurity and Its Correlates Among Families Living on a Rural American Indian Reservation.” American Journal of Public Health, 102(7), 1346–52.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Briones, V. A. (Forthcoming) “Fighting for the Taste Buds of Our Children.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.Google Scholar
Brown, T. L. (2013). Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.Google Scholar
California Indian Museum & Cultural Center. (2017). “Cuh:uyaw: Increasing Tribal Family Access to Healthy and Traditional Food Resources Food Sovereignty and Security Assessment Findings.” Santa Rosa, CA: California Indian Museum and Cultural Center. Retrieved from: https://cimcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/CIMCC-Food-Sovereignty-Assessment-Report.pdf.Google Scholar
Calloway, C. G. (1995). The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. (2001). The Report of the Native American Lending Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Treasury.Google Scholar
Cornell, S. (1988). The Return of the Native. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Denetdale, J. (2007). Reclaiming Diné History: Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juani. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.Google Scholar
Dewees, S., and Sarkozy-Banoczy, S. (2008). Investing in Native Community Change: Understanding the Role of Community Development Financial Institutions. Longmont, CO: First Nations Oweesta Corporation.Google Scholar
Diné Policy Institute. (2014). Diné Food Sovereignty: A Report on the Navajo Nation Food System and the Case to Rebuild a Self-Sufficient Food System for the Diné People. Tsalie, AZ: Diné Policy Institute.Google Scholar
Dolan, C., and Rajak, D. (2016). “Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid.” The Journal of Development Studies, 52(4), 514–29.Google Scholar
Feir, D., Gillezeau, R., and Jones, M. E. (2019). The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains (No. 1–2019). Minneapolis: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.Google Scholar
First Nations Development Institute. (2007). Integrated Asset-Building Strategies for Reservation-Based Communities: A 27-Year Retrospective of First Nations Development Institute. Longmont, CO: First Nations Development Institute.Google Scholar
Gifford-Gonzalez, D., and Sunseri, K. U. (2007). “Foodways on the Frontier: Animal Use and Identity in Early Colonial New Mexico.” In Twiss, K. (ed.), The Archaeology of Food and Identity, Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, 260–87.Google Scholar
Gordon, A., and Oddo, V. (2012). Addressing Child Hunger and Obesity in Indian Country: Report to Congress (No. 69cb021705cf40e798d8ca9922a3d013). Mathematica Policy Research.Google Scholar
Hardeman, R. R., Murphy, K. A., Karbeah, J., and Kozhimannil, K. B. (2018). “Naming Institutionalized Racism in the Public Health Literature: A Systematic Literature Review.” Public Health Reports, 133(3), 240–49.Google Scholar
Hardoy, J. E. (1968). Urban Planning in Pre-Columbian America. New York: Braziller.Google Scholar
Hyslop, J. (1984). The Inka Road System. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Iverson, P. (2002). Diné: A History of the Navajos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.Google Scholar
Jorgensen, M. (2016). Access to Capital and Credit in Native Communities. Tucson: Native Nations Institute, The University of Arizona.Google Scholar
Liebmann, M. (2012). Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.Google Scholar
McManus, M. (2016). Minority Business Ownership: Data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners, U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy Issue Brief Number 12.Google Scholar
Minority Business Development Agency. (No Date) Fact Sheet: American Indian and Alaska Native-Owned Firms. U.S. Department of Commerce. Retrieved from: www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/SBO_Facts_AIANOB.pdf.Google Scholar
Native CDFI Network. (2017). Revisiting Native American Entrepreneurship in South Dakota’s Nine Reservations. Rapid City, SD: Native CDFI Network.Google Scholar
Ojeifo, S. A. (2013). “Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria: A Panacea for Youth Unemployment.” Journal of Education and Practice, 4(6), 61–67.Google Scholar
Pardilla, M., Prasad, D., Suratkar, S., and Gittelsohn, J. (2014). “High Levels of Household Food Insecurity on the Navajo Nation.” Public Health Nutrition, 17(1), 58–65.Google Scholar
Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (2015). “Madam Sacho: How One Iroquois Woman Survived the American Revolution.” Humanities, 36(3).Google Scholar
Rasheed, H. S., and Rasheed, B. Y. (2003). “Developing Entrepreneurial Characteristics in Minority Youth: The Effects of Education and Enterprise Experience.” In Stiles, C. H., and Galbraith, C. S., eds., Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Structure and Process, 261–77. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.Google Scholar
Reséndez, A. (2016). The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Google Scholar
Stinchcomb, G. E., Messner, T. C., Driese, S. G., Nordt, L. C., and Stewart, R. M. (2011). “Pre-colonial (AD 1100–1600) Sedimentation Related to Prehistoric Maize Agriculture and Climate Change in Eastern North America.” Geology, 39(4), 363–66.Google Scholar
Strickland, R. (1985). “Genocide-at-Law: An Historic and Contemporary View of the Native American Experience.” U. Kan. L. Rev., 34, 713.Google Scholar
Trombold, C. D., Audouze, F., Renfrew, C., Schlanger, N., Sherratt, A., Taylor, T., and Ashmore, W. (1991). Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Usner, D. H. (1992). Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.Google Scholar
U.S. Small Business Administration. (No Date) American Indian- and Alaska Native-Owned Businesses in the United States. Retrieved from: www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/SBO_Facts_AIANOB.pdf.Google Scholar
Walstad, W. B., and Kourilsky, M. L. (1998). “Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Knowledge of Black Youth.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 23(2), 5–18.Google Scholar
White, R. (2011). Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.Google Scholar
Wishart, D. M. (1995). “Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal.” The Journal of Economic History, 55(1), 120–38.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×