She’s Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Food Sovereignty – TheTyee.ca

How Jessie Housty feeds the growth of her Heiltsuk culture and community.

“I want to stress that we have no idea what we are doing.”

So says ’Cúagilákv Jessie Housty, a self-described “community agitator, mother, land-based educator, indigenist, [and] unapologetically Haíłzaqv” woman — who promptly displays all the hallmarks of someone who knows exactly what she is doing.

What Housty is doing, on the central coast of British Columbia, is agitating, mothering, educating, and staking the ground of her traditional territory. She is a young Indigenous woman, who, with the help of her friends and family, is feeding the growth of her culture and her community.

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