School Food Development Project (SFDP) Practicing Community Wellness in re-Search

The fundamental goal is to shift the Maarsii/Koana and gratitude to all community research paradigm to transform how members and Elders for gifting their time, researchers from all disciplines interact, engage expertise, lived experiences and passion to help and connect with Indigenous communities to heal and reconcile our nations. [...] It is also equally important to assimilation and deep colonial exploitations has acknowledge Turtle Island’s growing strength to been the driving catalyst for mistrust, break binary thinking and transform our nation’s skepticism, and hesitancy toward participating systems of thinking to biocentric and decolonial in research and working with researchers practice and mindfulness. [...] 2.0 Defining Community Language, Terminology and Worldviews Educating and defining the terminology developed to entrench power and control is vital in leading to effective and culturally appropriate research ways to help solve our common health and wellbeing challenges. [...] In this harvest food and medicines from the forest and earth, and the knowledge of how to do these framework, conversations on kinship, land, and culture will be positioned to activate healing things has been developed, shared and passed and the emergence of synergistic research ways down from generation to generation. [...] Some of the concerns we face as a community include the changes in the abundance and availability of our healthy traditional keystone food sources, our perceived reduction in weather predictions, the extreme rise and drop in water levels, and the safety of traveling in changing weather conditions in our cold climate with inadequate infrastructure.