Seed Sovereignty Declaration

This video features a reading of the Seed Sovereignty Declaration that was drafted by members of the New Mexico Acequia Association and the Traditional Native American Farmers' Association. This Alliance was later joined by the organizations Tewa Women United and Honor Our Pueblo Existence. The Declaration was presented and signed by 110 participants at the 1st Annual Tierra, Agua, y Cultura conference held in Alcalde, New Mexico on March 10 & 11, 2006.

This video features a recording of the Declaration read by students of Peñasco Middle School and Roots and Wings Charter School in 2010. The video and imagery depicts northern New Mexican cultural traditions of Indo-Hispano and Native American Pueblo food and agriculture. The images and video were mostly obtained over the years with the support of projects involving Miguel Santistevan that were funded by the McCune and Christensen Foundations and the Kindle Project.

More information on this Declaration and the Alliance can be found at:

http://www.lasacequias.org/programs/seed-alliance/

More information on the effort to protect farmers from genetic engineering contamination in NM can be found at:

http://www.savenmseeds.org/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• traditional culture
• agriculture
• food
• food sovereignty
• seed sovereignty
• declaration
• Indigenous
• Native
• Hispano
• acequia
• genetic engineering
• crops
• property rights

[ytoobpg]

Thank you for this inspiring message. It brings a smile to my face to know there are young people in my state that have a spiritual bond with their land and understand how important it is to maintain that direct connection with the earth, no mater what. If there is any self-evident law requiring no statute in any book, it is the right to cultivate the soil beneath our own feet, and feed ourselves under the same cycles of mother earth that have sustained us all since time began.

[cjg505]

Congratulations filmmakers! I enjoyed seeing it at Northern and glad to see it up and available to the public. Good job on telling the story. I love the imagery and youth voice you chose to tell the story and declaration. Great educational video for all ages, it should be supported and distributed as a part of food science, biology, environment, culture, social issues and history. Suerte!



[mtnman2012]

Wonderful movement you have started and very moving video. You created a spiritual experience.  I like the symbolic art imagry. Very moving. This is holy, sacred.

[BullhornJournal]

We're all in this together.

[idreamofwolfkisses]

This is fantastic, I had to share it on Facebook!! Thank you!!

[rainjustice38]

thank you!  this is amazing.