M0haskwÊWin pahki-nahÂpaminÂkonan1 (harvesting is a part of our identity): Harvesting as a traditional land use and technology paradigm

This chapter presents a narrative of harvesting as a traditional land use paradigm and the many levels of community empowerment that emerged through a community based Native ecology initiative and reclaiming of Indian land, both physically and conceptually. The harvesting of traditional medicinal, ceremonial, and edible plants within the Chicago American Indian community has had impacts on community members relationships to land and subsistence rights in an urban, multi-tribal context.