Food As Resistance: A Keynote Address by Shiloh Maples

Shiloh Maples, an Anishinaabe community organizer, seed keeper, and storyteller, offers a keynote address as part of the "Growing Justice, Creating Community" college-community symposium organized by the Oberlin College Food Studies Program.

Shiloh Maples is a citizen of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians and a descendant of the Swan Creek Black River Confederated Ojibwa Tribes. Shiloh serves the Indigenous food and seed sovereignty movement, supporting intercultural and cross-movement alliance-building among grassroots groups, Tribal communities, and institutional partners. Shiloh also has a podcast called Spirit Plate--which discusses the social, political, and historical reasons the Indigenous food sovereignty movement is necessary.

Lunch will be provided.