Year of Award
2014
Document Type
Thesis - Campus Access Only
Degree Type
Master of Arts (MA)
Degree Name
Anthropology
Department or School/College
Department of Anthropology
Committee Chair
Gregory R. Campbell
Commitee Members
Richard Sattler, Blakely D. Brown
Keywords
Food Security, Pyramid Lake, Political Ecology, Co
Abstract
Native Americans are widely known as one of the most economically disadvantaged populations in the United States. Anglo-European imposed socioeconomic structures altering the landscape have interrupted the culturally specific behaviors associated with food security: access to food resources, the control of food production, its distribution, which has influenced how people go about preparing culturally specific foods today. In order to understand food security in this study area, it is essential to show how individuals have maintained access to food resources within the existent ethnohistorical literature. Second, to demonstrate the local perceptions about food through interviews conducted with tribal members who discuss commodities and their distribution, the ways people go about preparing these foods, and how individuals want to maintain access to healthy food in the future.
Recommended Citation
Hudson, Penny D., "Food for Thought on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation: The Political Ecology Behind Food Security" (2014). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 4258.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/4258
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