Indigenous Women Are Restoring Their Agricultural Heritage in Colorado

Growing up on Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico, Arielle Quintana often accompanied her dad into the fields where he grew chile peppers, pumpkins, melons, beans, peas and gourds. But the older she got, the less time she spent growing food – and Quintana knows she’s not alone.“We have different songs that talk about women being the holders of seeds and caretakers of plants, and women traditionally participated in the planting and stewardship of food,” Quintana says. “There are so many roles that women had in farming and food systems that have been buried, erased or made invisible under colonialism.

Farm Flavor

Water is Life: Everywhere the Water Flows, We Can Plant a Tree to Grow…

Our own backyard here in Boulder County is the direct connection to our approach to water at Treehouse Learning and as residents of the Front Range Water Shed. At the Western Edge of the county in an area now known as the Indian Peaks Wilderness and the Continental Divide.

Treehouse Learning 2023

A Corn Festival Shares Ancestral Traditions From All First Nations

A team of Harvest of All First Nations, a group focused on Indigenous-led reparations, rematriation & Earth-based Decolonization for the benefit of BIPOC peoples for cultural enrichment and health equity, in collaboration with the Foundation for Leaders Organizing for Water and Sustainability (FLOWS), Dry Lands Agroecology Research, El Centro Amistad, and Food Security Network have organized a whole-day festival to reclaim the ancestral traditions of all first nations people to share the abundance.

KGNU’s Rossana Longo-Better spoke with Andrea Yolloteotl about the importance of corn for native Americans and details about the Corn Festival that will take place on October 1st. Starting at 9 am to sundown at the Yellow Barn farm in Longmont.

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-Like Water, We Re-Member: -

A Conceptual Model of Identity (Re)formation through Cultural Reclamation for Indigenous Peoples of Mexico in the United States

Genealogy 2023

-HAFN Recap-

On September 23rd and 24th, the Harvest of All First Nations Corn Festival was held at the Agricultural Heritage Center in Longmont. The Corn Festival celebrates community, indigeneity, and land and cultural reclamation through a variety of educational workshops, ceremonies, music performances and food harvest shares. The Climate Justice Leadership Alliance volunteered and helped support the event by providing zero waste management. 

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

-Celebrating the Boulder Women Who Tell Our Stories-

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-People of the Corn-

Corn, or maize, is arguably the most important food crop to have ever been cultivated on the North and South American continents. Today, the U.S. alone grows enough acres of corn to cover the entirety of Germany, and globally, humans grow more corn than any other plant on the planet.

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