Project Title: Green Corn Renaissance: Mvskoke Food Sovereignty and the Political Ecology of O’safke
Noah Schlager, University of Arizona
Noah Schlager cvhocefketos. Este Mvskokvlket owis. Through their mother, Donna Wiggins, they are Mvskoke-Creek, Southern Creole, and Anglo from the longleaf pinelands of the southern Mvskoke homeland. Through their father, Dan Schlager, they are Jewish from communities which once existed in contemporary Ukraine and Romania. They are a PhD student at the University of Arizona, concentrating on the intersection of Indigenous sovereignty, working lands, and biodiversity conservation. Their work engages the fields of human geography, biogeography, and critical agrarian studies. They currently live and work as a visitor in Cukson on the unceded lands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui. This grant by APSA is funding research into the political ecology of Mvskoke farming in the 20th century. They will examine the relationship between Mvskoke farmers, traditional crops, and political sovereignty.
About the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Indigenous Politics Recipients
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