Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant, OK, USA.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Fayetteville, AR, USA.
Health Promot Pract. 2023 Nov;24(6):1080-1082. doi: 10.1177/15248399231190358.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma's Historic Preservation Department (HPD) and the Center for Indigenous Health Equity (CIIHE) are partnering to implement and evaluate food sovereignty interventions to better understand the potential impact of such programs on individual and community health. The HPD's Growing Hope Program is a food sovereignty initiative that aims to restore traditional Choctaw gardens, which were once a physical, social, and cultural center of Choctaw life. The program combines heirloom seeds and the stories of their origins, gardening education and technical assistance, cooking classes, and a Choctaw youth internship program to support intergenerational knowledge and the restoration of culture and food security. Since its inception the program has provided Choctaw families with ancestral Choctaw cultivar seeds and provided the technical assistance to support the growing of sustainable, healthy, traditional Choctaw foods.
俄克拉荷马州乔克托族的历史保护部门（HPD）和原住民健康公平中心（CIIHE）正在合作实施和评估粮食主权干预措施，以更好地了解这些项目对个人和社区健康的潜在影响。HPD 的“种植希望”计划是一项粮食主权倡议，旨在恢复传统的乔克托花园，这些花园曾经是乔克托生活的物质、社会和文化中心。该计划结合了传家宝种子及其起源的故事、园艺教育和技术援助、烹饪课程以及乔克托青年实习计划，以支持代际知识以及文化和粮食安全的恢复。自成立以来，该计划为乔克托家庭提供了祖传的乔克托栽培品种种子，并提供了技术援助，以支持可持续、健康、传统的乔克托食品的种植。
