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Hoover quoted on Native American movement to return to land for healthier food
Brown University professor Elizabeth Hoover traveled the countryside with a filmmaker last year to research 40 Native farming and gardening projects. Over the course of three months and 20,000 miles, she discovered community leaders hopeful that upcoming generations would return to the indigenous food that buoyed their ancestors’ health.
“I definitely think it’s a movement,” she said. “One thing I always asked was if they saw themselves part of the hipster, white people thing, and I thought they’d say no. But they said, ‘Yes, we’re part of that.’”