[iDiversity] Dr. Charlotte Coté - Food Sovereignty, Food Hegemony & Charismatic Animals-DRI's Brown Bag Lunch Series

[Cynthia del Rosario]

From: On Behalf Of diversity_research_institute at u.washington.edu

The Diversity Research Institute at the University of Washington cordially invites you and your colleagues to the 2009-2010 DRI Brown Bag Lecture Series.

Featured Speaker:

Dr. Charlotte Cote
Associate Professor
American Indian Studies
University of Washington

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Parrington Hall Forum, (Room 309)
12:00 - 1:30 pm

Food Sovereignty, Food Hegemony, and Charismatic Animals. The Attack on Contemporary Indigenous Whaling

Numerous studies conducted on indigenous peoples globally found that they have the worst health and nutrition of all communities in all countries world-wide.  In the U.S and Canada Native people suffer from chronic, debilitating, and life-threatening illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune diseases, and obesity. As a way to overcome these major health problems Native people are looking at ways to reincorporate traditional foods back into their diets and to restore cultural food practices. Unfortunately, having access to and control over our traditional food products is not as easy as it may sound.

The history of Western hegemonic control over indigenous food production and consumption continues and through their political power wealthy Western states and NGOs continue to influence what is acceptable as food and what animals or mammals should or should not be eaten. My talk will address these issues by focusing on the current Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth whaling issue in the Pacific Northwest and how the attack on contemporary indigenous whaling is another form of cultural and/or culinary imperialism as people outside these communities continue to impose their own symbolic and aesthetic food values on the Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth people.

Dr. Charlotte Coté is an Associate Professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Coté is a member of the Tseshaht First Nation, one of the cultural groups which make up the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations situated on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. She has a BA in Political Science from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C., and an MA and Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Coté's areas of academic interest are Native sovereignty, law, governance, policy and treaty rights. She has published in the areas of Native sovereignty in Canada and the United States, traditional Indian law and justice systems, the Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth whaling tradition, and the Northwest Coast Guardian Spirit Complex. She has forthcoming book titled: "Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors. The Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions." It will be published this Summer.

For more information, please email Norma Ramirez at ramirezn at uw.edu<mailto:ramirezn at uw.edu>.

--
Norma Ramirez
Graduate Staff Assistant
Office of the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement,
Diversity Research Institute
University of Washington



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