 What food sovereignty means to me is being able to control how and where you're getting your food from. Food sovereignty means to me is also taking control of what we grow and what we eat. I think it's important to us because diabetes is so high on the reservation. We need to control what we put into our systems. I'm also a tribal member here at Rosebud and I hear sovereignty a lot that you know we have sovereignty here as a tribe and to me that means when we step back that we do not accept any assistance from anyone else that we as a people can survive on our own. So food sovereignty just means that you're taking control and this garden is just one example. And being able to take it into the community and have our community feeds we use mostly produce from here, we get buffalo from game fishing parks so almost everything we use comes from the community so people know that they're getting a good meal. That's a part of what food sovereignty I think looks like here. It's the gardening and the tomatoes and the modern kind of foods grown in a good healthy way but it's also going back to some of these teachings and the foods themselves that have been here and have been in this community for centuries and are deeply kind of embedded in people's experience of the world and they're you know just DNA in terms of what they need to be healthy so we're just trying to you know do a little bit of everything and do it as well as we can. In our food sovereignty you know taking care of the resources that we have our soil, water, air, plants, animals and even adding the human component in there. If we take care of the land it'll take care of us. We don't use any chemicals or anything in here it's just you know water and nourishment from each of our workers. I think food has that power to bring people together but also to be really transformative because it's a part of everything. Everywhere you go you're going to have some sort of meal. If you go into someone's home that's a value to be able to feed them and offer them something even if it's just a cup of water. So the more that we're able to produce and and increase access to those good foods that's like an immediate chain effect and can have huge impact in terms of the overall health but also I think the sort of spiritual mental health of the community. Where we come from is so important understanding that and then learning how to move forward with that knowledge so that we can keep those traditions and cultures alive. I think it has a real tangible impact on people that's that's why all of us come out here in garden in the morning you know it's not just one or two of us you know as a job everybody comes out here it's a community process to grow the food and to bond and to take care of the land.