Mvskoke Food Sovereignty Initiative

Our Seeds, Our Food, Our Survival

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2010 Food Sovereignty Symposium

February 12 and 13, 2010 ♢ Muscogee Nation, Oklahoma

Saturday, February 13th

9:00 Welcome

9:15 Successful Small Oklahoma Farm Emily Oakley and Mike Appel, Three Springs Organic Farm, Jay, OK

10:00 OK Farmers and Ranchers Association Mike Oakley and Frank Butler, Ranchers

10:30 Indigenous Permaculture Guillermo Vasquez, Mayan Farmer, San Francisco, CA

11:15 Buffalo and Grassfed Cattle Rupert Nowlin, Arapaho Rancher; Colony, OK

Noon Traditional Meal Foods description by Chumona Deere, Mvskoke Traditional Cook

1:30 Cooking Mvskoke Foods Melissa Harjo, Mvskoke Farmer and Traditional Cook

2:00 Traditional Farming and Permaculture Clayton Brascoupe, Organic Farmer, Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico and Director Traditional Native American Farmers Assoc.

2:30 Pawnee Corn Restoration Project Deb Echohawk, Pawnee Keeper of the Seeds

3:00 Info Resources Teresa Maurer, ATTRA and Alan Ware, OK Remediation Services

3:15 Break

3:30 Communicating Environment in Mvskoke Country James Treat, Mvskoke writer

4:00 Youth message from Symposium Youth Tract Youth Representative TBA

4:30 Closing Message Pascual Yaxon, Mayan Elder, Indigenous Permaculture Project

5:00 Dismiss