Towards Food Sovereignty: Seabird Island’s path to sustainable self-determination

The Sq’éwqel (Seabird Island Band) exists to promote a healthier, self-sufficient, self-governing, unified and educated community. We believe that a healthy community is one that has achieved physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and cultural balance. 

Institute for Sustainable Food Systems (ISFS) is grateful for our longstanding partnership with the Seabird Island Band. Our work collectively seeks to empower Indigenous communities to co-create regenerative food systems that support the wellbeing of the community, environment, and local economy. Our goal, as partners, is to create capacity within the nation to achieve food security, while working towards community-led food sovereignty. We see this work as a vital act of reconciliation, work that is necessary to undo the harms of colonization and government policies that stripped Indigenous communities across this country of their ability to define and achieve food sovereignty.