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proposed by Joseph LeBlanc
How can we strengthen a subsistence economy?
Protect the future use of natural resourses for individuals to harvest food and resorses.
Pollutants from around the globe impact our ability to sustain ourselves safely.
Getting young people back on the land, hunting , fishing knowing that wildlife is contaminated.
Sparrow decision deems to threaten aboriginal rights.
Governments in their effort to protect wildlife hamper aboriginal gathering rights.
Community garden supports subsitance living on First Nations.
green houses supported in northern first nations would benifit a large setion of the community.
Living on the land has a stigma attached to it, you have given up on the capitalist system.
Recreation is not over ruling the treaty comitments to hunt.
Health benifits are obvious for diabetics who choose to eat wild game as opposed to cow meat.
shipment of goats sent to a first nation community.
Sparrow clearifies that the law allows for the treaty obligations to be met before the government limits the harvest.
Impact of global warming has on food security.
Traditional skills and knowledge of homeland interfered by the residential school system.
Non- stauts right to harvest from the land is in question.
How can we encourage municipalities to encourage the use of land for subsistance gardening and iiving for the financially challenged.
Community hunter support programs cuold be useful.
Fuel for the elders, is currently contracted out to others where in the past we cared for our own volunteily.
first nation susisstance structures must be built into the education system. Teach us all to harvest resourses from our elders.
traditionl structures of families are no longer there, to strengthen this the schools must incorporate them into the classroom.
Safeway junk food is in competition for our youth dinner table.
Offering tradtional foods to headstart children ( 2-3 years old)
Runnign water is avaialbe to the first nation communites baby duck live in the water system ponds.
Ducks taste different, why is this.
Negotiations with mining company improves when you understand your traditional values and rights o the land.
Language and land use is incorporated in to the school system.
Residential school ssytem was efffective at educating out our traditional ways, let's reeducat the tradition back int our communities.
Strengthening the family unit.
Social problems , welfare economy, Traditional values are not supported.
Community healing
A law " every mans right" to pick mushrooms, blueberries as a right for all citizens.
Soup kitchens who bring in traditional foods .
Regulation for use of traditional foods in commerial operations is a difficult barrier to access for urban aboriginal.
Licencing establishments to provide tradtional foods in the first nation community.
