Episode 28 - Part 1

Decolonization of Our Diets and Reclaiming

Traditional Foods, Jared Qwustenuxun Williams

WHAT

Food sovereignty traces back to our original teachings, to learn about the

connection between the land and our food supply and connection to

community through traditional foods. Decolonizing our diet means

incorporating traditional foods to preserve and nurture our mind, body and

spirit and eliminate diseases that have long impacted Indigenous peoples.

Jared Qwustenuxun Williams - is a passionate Indigenous Foods educator

who spent much of his youth with his late grandmother, immersed in

Salish culture. After Qwustenuxun graduated from culinary arts, he spent a

decade working in restaurants across Vancouver Island before deciding to

move back home to Quw’utsun to take the role of Elder’s Kitchen Manager

at Cowichan Tribes. After more than a decade of cooking for his elders,

Qwustenuxun now works as an Indigenous foods educator, writer, and

consultant. Most recently, Qwustenuxun was nominated for and won

several Canadian Online Publishing Awards; he was also nominated for the

2022 BC Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Award and led the first smoked

salmon project conducted by the First Nations Health Authority. That

proved that traditional salmon smoking techniques are safe and effective

for food preservation. When he is not working on furthering Salish food

sovereignty, Qwustenuxun spends his time with his wife and children on

their small hobby farm in Quw’utsun.

MUSIC

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