Cāwíitx - Jeanine Gordon
Jeanine Gordon shares Cāwíitx through oral storytelling, beadwork, and the seasonal relationships that sustain first foods.
- Oral history
- Seed sovereignty
A healthy food system requires building relationships with the entire ecosystem
Jeanine Gordon is Cayuse, and a registered member of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation. She is a storyteller, basket weaver, and a traditional beadwork artist. She contributes this beaded depiction of Cāwíitx, wild carrot. Next to the wild carrot, Jeanine symbolizes women, who are the traditional gatherers of Cāwíitx. Above are stars, and below are the grasses which represent the Palouse natural ecosystem.
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Jeanine speaks on Cāwíitx's importance and her people's first foods
Jeanine’s oral story talks about the cyclical rounds of seasons, and how we must pace our harvests to the seasons and tend to waters and lands so our foods have a good home to return to.
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