Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword: Celebrating Indigenous food systems: restoring Indigenous food traditions, knowledges, and values for a sustainable future / Harriet Kuhnlein -- Introduction / Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla -- SECTION I : Concepts: understanding the context. Reflections and Realities: Expressions of Food Sovereignty in the Fourth World / Dawn Morrison -- Indigenous Philosophies and Perspectives on Traditional Food Systems Including Food as Cultural Identity: Maintaining Food Security in Elsipogtog First Nation, New Brunswick / Elisa Levi -- Aki Miijim (Land Food) and the Sovereignty of the Asatiwisipe Anishinaabeg Boreal Forest Food System / Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville -- "Food Will Be What Brings the People Together": Constructing Counter Narratives from the Perspective of Indigenous Foodways / Leslie Dawson -- SECTION II: Cases: community-based action. A Collection of Voices: Land-Based Leadership, Community Wellness, and Food Knowledge Revitalization of the WJOLELP Tsartlip First Nation Garden Project / Erynne M. Gilpin and Mary Hayes -- Cultivating Resurgence from the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Lens: A Case Study from Northern Manitoba / Asfia Gulrukh Kamal and Ithinto Mechisowin Program Committee -- Rebuilding Cultural Identity and Indigenous Food Sovereignty with Indigenous Youth through Traditional Food Access and Skills in the City / Tabitha Robin (Martens) and Jaime Cidro -- Learnings from a Food Security Action Group in Alexander First Nation / Hara Nikolopoulos, Anna Farmer, David Dyck Fehderau, Joanna Campiou,and Noreen Willows -- Food Justice in the Inner City: Reflections from a Program of Public Health Nutrition Research in Saskatchewan / Lise Kouri, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Tenille Thomson, and Melody Wood -- SECTION III: Conversations: commentary and contemporary issues. Damming Food Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples: A Case Study of Food Security at O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation / Shirley Thompson and Pepper Pritty -- The Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Food Sovereignty / Priscilla Settee -- Perspectives from Métis Harvesters in Manitoba on Concerns and Challenges to Sustaining Traditional Harvesting Practices and Knowledge: A Distinctions-Based Approach to Indigenous Food Sovereignty / Brielle Beaudin-Reimer -- Socio-Historical Influences and Impacts on Indigenous Food Systems in Southwestern Ontario: The Experiences of Elder Women Living On- and Off-Reserve / Hannah Tait Neufeld -- Synthesis / Shailesh Shukla and Priscilla Settee.