Food security isn’t sufficient; food sovereignty should be the goal, said Duke professor Courtney Lewis. On a recent panel, Lewis and two members of the Catawba Nation discussed how society shouldn’t rely on outside factors to ensure access to food.
“Larger mainstream society is so removed from their food,” says Courtney Lewis, a Duke professor and Cherokee Nation citizen. She recently moderated a discussion at the Duke Gardens about food sovereignty with two Catawba Nation citizens.
Roo George-Warren is an artist, educator, and eco-cultural restorationist, and Aaron Baumgardner is a basket maker, seed steward, and plant ecologist. Their conversation was moderated by Lewis, who is the Crandall Family Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Inaugural Director of the Native American Studies Initiative at Duke University.
By Sophie Cox, Oct. 1, 2024
