Dear IITC Board members, staff, advisors, and interested partners;
From August to October 2021, the IITC partnered with the United Nations Development Programme to produce a 30-minute video for the UNPD 2021 Nature for Life Hub virtual sessions scheduled in conjunction with the announcement of UNDP’s 2021 Equator Prize. UNDP approached IITC to help them show how traditional Indigenous food producers and knowledge holders from several regions and food systems, including Southern Arizona Indigenous farmers, are utilizing, maintaining and restoring their traditional food and knowledge systems and challenging industrial agricultural and food production that relies on GMO’s, pesticides and other non-natural methods of food production.
This video also demonstrated the importance of intergenerational knowledge sharing among youth and elders. We included videos presentations from Carson Kiburo, Indigenous Endorois Youth (Kenya, Africa); Rosalina Tuyuc (CONAVIGUA, Guatemala); Angel Valencia and Jared Martinez (Yaqui Nation, Arizona); Frank Ettawageshik (Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Minnesota); Anders Oskal (Sami Reindeer Herder, Norway), Hinewirangi Kohu (Māori elder and IITC BOD Vice President) and IITC Staff members Chris Honahnie and Amy Juan who are also traditional food producers. I also presented an update from the input we received from the Indigenous Peoples Global Consultation for the UN Food Systems Summit that took place in September 2021.
Chris Honahnie, IITC’s Food Sovereignty Co-coordinator was the Executive Producer of this video project and worked tirelessly with UNDP and the food producers to obtain and put together their excellent, informative and very moving submissions. He also worked with IITC’s documentation/videographer Alejandro Higuera who filmed and edited the Tucson Arizona area videos.
Our video was viewed by over 12,000 people on the UNDP webcast on October 5th, with additional hundreds of thousands of views via UNDP’s social media (according to UNDP) after the live streaming date. I also showed portions of it during a presentation to the Global Landscapes Forum in coordination with COP 26 in Glasgow, hosted by Cultural Survival. UNDP received very positive responses to IITC’s videos.
Here is the link to the complete video. We greatly appreciate UNDP’s assistance with editing and also adding English and Spanish subtitles.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e2bf4bxxxoate06/NfL%20Hub%202021_IITC%20Edited%20Video_2.mp4?dl=0
Thanks to Chris and all the knowledge holders for their work on this very excellent production.
Andrea Carmen
Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
100 E. Ajo Way, Tucson Arizona, 85713
Tucson Office Phone +(520) 833-9797
Cell phone +(520) 273-6003
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IITC Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Knowledge Video
Dear IITC Board members, staff, advisors, and interested partners;
From August to October 2021, the IITC partnered with the United Nations Development Programme to produce a 30-minute video for the UNPD 2021 Nature for Life Hub virtual sessions scheduled in conjunction with the announcement of UNDP’s 2021 Equator Prize. UNDP approached IITC to help them show how traditional Indigenous food producers and knowledge holders from several regions and food systems, including Southern Arizona Indigenous farmers, are utilizing, maintaining and restoring their traditional food and knowledge systems and challenging industrial agricultural and food production that relies on GMO’s, pesticides and other non-natural methods of food production.
This video also demonstrated the importance of intergenerational knowledge sharing among youth and elders. We included videos presentations from Carson Kiburo, Indigenous Endorois Youth (Kenya, Africa); Rosalina Tuyuc (CONAVIGUA, Guatemala); Angel Valencia and Jared Martinez (Yaqui Nation, Arizona); Frank Ettawageshik (Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Minnesota); Anders Oskal (Sami Reindeer Herder, Norway), Hinewirangi Kohu (Māori elder and IITC BOD Vice President) and IITC Staff members Chris Honahnie and Amy Juan who are also traditional food producers. I also presented an update from the input we received from the Indigenous Peoples Global Consultation for the UN Food Systems Summit that took place in September 2021.
Chris Honahnie, IITC’s Food Sovereignty Co-coordinator was the Executive Producer of this video project and worked tirelessly with UNDP and the food producers to obtain and put together their excellent, informative and very moving submissions. He also worked with IITC’s documentation/videographer Alejandro Higuera who filmed and edited the Tucson Arizona area videos.
Our video was viewed by over 12,000 people on the UNDP webcast on October 5th, with additional hundreds of thousands of views via UNDP’s social media (according to UNDP) after the live streaming date. I also showed portions of it during a presentation to the Global Landscapes Forum in coordination with COP 26 in Glasgow, hosted by Cultural Survival. UNDP received very positive responses to IITC’s videos.
Here is the link to the complete video. We greatly appreciate UNDP’s assistance with editing and also adding English and Spanish subtitles.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e2bf4bxxxoate06/NfL%20Hub%202021_IITC%20Edited%20Video_2.mp4?dl=0
Thanks to Chris and all the knowledge holders for their work on this very excellent production.
Andrea Carmen
Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
100 E. Ajo Way, Tucson Arizona, 85713
Tucson Office Phone +(520) 833-9797
Cell phone +(520) 273-6003