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A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other
Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast
In the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (uumaas) brings sockeye salmon (miaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. uumaas and miaat are central to the sacred food practices that have been a crucial part of the Indigenous community's efforts to enact food sovereignty, decolonize their diet, and preserve their ancestral knowledge.
In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Charlotte Coté shares contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of broader efforts to re-Indigenize contemporary diets on the Northwest Coast. Coté offers evocative stories of her Tseshaht community's and her own work to revitalize relationships to haʔum (traditional food) as a way to nurture health and wellness. As Indigenous peoples continue to face food insecurity due to ongoing inequality, environmental degradation, and the Westernization of traditional diets, Coté foregrounds healing and cultural sustenance via everyday enactments of food sovereignty: berry picking, salmon fishing, and building a community garden on reclaimed residential school grounds. This book is for everyone concerned about the major role food plays in physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness.
In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Charlotte Coté shares contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of broader efforts to re-Indigenize contemporary diets on the Northwest Coast. Coté offers evocative stories of her Tseshaht community's and her own work to revitalize relationships to haʔum (traditional food) as a way to nurture health and wellness. As Indigenous peoples continue to face food insecurity due to ongoing inequality, environmental degradation, and the Westernization of traditional diets, Coté foregrounds healing and cultural sustenance via everyday enactments of food sovereignty: berry picking, salmon fishing, and building a community garden on reclaimed residential school grounds. This book is for everyone concerned about the major role food plays in physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness.
About the Author
Charlotte Coté is associate professor in American Indian studies at the University of Washington and author of Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions.
Reviews
"I am so grateful for Charlotte Cote's A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, which creates a path into the living foodways and thoughtways of her people. Her warm, storytelling voice and sharing of collective knowledge embody the generous spirit of a feast, and this book itself, is a feast."—Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi), SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
"A powerful philosophy of food sovereignty. Coté successfully navigates myriad scholarly and nonscholarly voices, telling a compelling comprehensive story that helps us understand the practices and policies needed to make change in our food systems."—Kyle Whyte, Michigan State University
"Adeptly uses a deep storytelling method, including both lived experience and critical analysis of history and theory, to examine experiences and transformations of Indigenous foodways."—Hannah Wittman, University of British Columbia
"The most recent book by Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth) continues her trend of exceptional scholarship that draws from her academic and personal expertise on the politics of food sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples in the Pacific Northwest...A Drum in One Hand provides a broad exploration of the Indigenous food sovereignty movement as seen through the lens of Coté and her family's practices."—Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal
"This book is based in, and within, Indigenous knowledges; specifically, Tseshaht philosophy and ontology. To be privy to such information feels like an incredible gift: Coté's stories are generous and insightful."—Tabitha Robin, University of British Columbia, Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ)
"This is an innovative work that tells living histories not just through people, but also through rivers, gardens, berry patches, and more. This dynamic and engaging book pursues an Indigenous-centered methodology that speaks to health and healing, ecology and envoronment, community and sovereignty, past, present, and future, and beyond."—Western History Association Donald L. Fixico award committee
"A powerful philosophy of food sovereignty. Coté successfully navigates myriad scholarly and nonscholarly voices, telling a compelling comprehensive story that helps us understand the practices and policies needed to make change in our food systems."—Kyle Whyte, Michigan State University
"Adeptly uses a deep storytelling method, including both lived experience and critical analysis of history and theory, to examine experiences and transformations of Indigenous foodways."—Hannah Wittman, University of British Columbia
"The most recent book by Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth) continues her trend of exceptional scholarship that draws from her academic and personal expertise on the politics of food sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples in the Pacific Northwest...A Drum in One Hand provides a broad exploration of the Indigenous food sovereignty movement as seen through the lens of Coté and her family's practices."—Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal
"This book is based in, and within, Indigenous knowledges; specifically, Tseshaht philosophy and ontology. To be privy to such information feels like an incredible gift: Coté's stories are generous and insightful."—Tabitha Robin, University of British Columbia, Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ)
"This is an innovative work that tells living histories not just through people, but also through rivers, gardens, berry patches, and more. This dynamic and engaging book pursues an Indigenous-centered methodology that speaks to health and healing, ecology and envoronment, community and sovereignty, past, present, and future, and beyond."—Western History Association Donald L. Fixico award committee
Hardback | |
January 28, 2022 | |
9780295749518 | |
English | |
208 | |
17 b&w illus., 2 maps | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
1 Pounds (US) | |
$105.00 USD, £82.00 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Paperback / softback | |
January 28, 2022 | |
9780295749525 | |
English | |
208 | |
17 b&w illus., 2 maps | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
.65 Pounds (US) | |
$29.95 USD, £23.99 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
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Unrecognized in California
Olivia Chilcote, series edited by Coll Thrush, Charlotte Coté
May 2024
- University of Washington Press
$105.00 USD
- Hardback
$30.00 USD
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We Are Dancing for You
Cutcha Risling Baldy, series edited byColl Thrush, Charlotte Coté
Jun 2018
- University of Washington Press
$105.00 USD
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$30.00 USD
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Power in the Telling
Brook Colley, foreword by David G. Lewis, series edited byColl Thrush, Charlotte Coté
May 2018
- University of Washington Press
$105.00 USD
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$30.00 USD
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Other Titles from Indigenous Confluences
Alaska Native Resilience
Holly Miowak Guise
Apr 2024
- University of Washington Press
$105.00 USD
- Hardback
$30.00 USD
- Paperback / softback
Settler Cannabis
Kaitlin P. Reed
Jun 2023
- University of Washington Press
$105.00 USD
- Hardback
$30.00 USD
- Paperback / softback
Education at the Edge of Empire
John R. Gram, foreword by Theodore Jojola
Nov 2018
- University of Washington Press
$30.00 USD
- Paperback / softback
$99.00 USD
- Hardback
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Mar 2024
- University of Washington Press
$49.95 USD
- Hardback
Comics and Conquest
Rhiannon Koehler
Nov 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
$59.95 USD
- Hardback
$59.95 USD
- Electronic book text
Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka
Ann Fienup-Riordan, Alice Rearden, Marie Meade
Oct 2023
- University of Washington Press
$45.00 USD
- Paperback / softback