Cultural and Spiritual Connections to Native Foods: Then and Now

About this event

Join us at The Country Bookshop to learn more about the health and vitality of Native Foodways. Inspired by the health and habits of native people and exploring how this has evolved over time. The talk is free with registration and will encompass the food traditions of native people, indigenous food sovereignty and h0ow we can all engage in the native inspired healthy footways.

There will be a selection of books recommended by Jane Hallway for purchase.

Jane Haladay is a settler scholar and Professor of American Indian Studies who teaches Indigenous literatures and other Native Studies courses that incorporate service learning, writing enrichment and international Indigenous travel study. Dr. Haladay has published a range of critical and creative work, including the collection Narratives of Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments (MSU Press 2017), co-edited with friend and UNCP colleague, Dr. Scott Hicks. Among other recognitions, she has received UNCP’s Excellence in Service-Learning Award (2016), the Outstanding Allyship Award from UNCP’s American Indian Heritage Center (2021), and the University of North Carolina Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2023). Dr. Haladay is also a poet, a gardener, a lover of books and good food and a former high school English teacher. Her homeplace is California.

From The Country Bookshop