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FOOD CULTURE & SOCIETY
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 545-570Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2021.2025311
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Labrador Inuit; nutrition; food security; policy; colonization
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This review examines the nutrition and food security issues faced by Labrador Inuit during the process of colonization, using a critical dietetics lens. It also highlights the interventions implemented to address these issues and emphasizes the resilience and adaptability of Labrador Inuit.
Labrador Inuit are an Indigenous People from northern Labrador, within the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Prior to European contact, Labrador Inuit were self-reliant. However, historical relationships with Christian missionaries, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Government of Canada impacted their relationship with food, access to food, and the physical and social health of Labrador Inuit. This review is based on the stages of colonization. It uses a critical dietetics lens to examine the extrinsic causes of nutrition and food security issues that resulted from colonization, and describes the interventions implemented to address them. Moreover, the review shows the resilience and adaptability of Labrador Inuit as they came full circle from self-sufficient Labrador Inuit in the 1500s, to sign the first Inuit land claim agreement in Canada and form the Nunatsiavut Government in 2005.
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