Unsettling Food Security: The Role of Young People in Indigenous Food System Revitalisation.

Official assessments of Canadian food security, which greatly inform policy and perception, paint an insufficient picture of the ways many Indigenous peoples, and in particular Indigenous children who are most impacted by food insecurity, actually experience and understand the problem. This article begins with a discussion of how these metrics neglect the vital connection between access to Indigenous food systems and Indigenous food security. To address the serious food insecurity experienced by Indigenous peoples, this connection must be acknowledged, and revitalisation of these food systems, which are damaged by settler‐colonial practices, must become a focus of the discourse and action. Indigenous elders believe children will be pivotal in revitalisation. In this spirit, this article traces experiential learning projects on revitalisation, in which young people unsettle the settler discourse of food security and take action in small but important ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]