Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardening

As a community-based participatory research project designed to promote health and wellbeing, Growing Resilience supports home gardens for 96 primarily Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho families in the Wind River Reservation, located in Wyoming. Through analysis of data from two years of qualitative fieldwork, including stories told by 53 gardeners and members of the project’s community advisory board in talking circles and through our novel sovereign storytelling method, we a * Corresponding author: Rachael Budowle, Assistant Professor, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources; University of Wyoming; 1000 E. University Avenue; Laramie, WY 82071 USA; rbudowle@uwyo.edu b Melvin L. Arthur, Research Scientist, Department of Kinesiology & Health, College of Health Sciences; University of Wyoming; 1000 E. University Avenue. Dept 3196; Laramie, WY 82071 USA; marthur1@uwyo.edu c Christine M. Porter, Associate Professor and Wyoming Excellence Chair of Community and Public Health; Growing Resilience Principal Investigator; Division of Kinesiology & Health, College of Health Sciences; University of Wyoming; 1000 E. University Avenue, Dept 3196, Laramie, WY, USA; christine.porter@uwyo.edu Contributors and Supporting Agencies Blue Mountain Associates, Eastern Shoshone Tribal Health, Wind River Development Fund, Growing Resilience Community Advisory Board, National Institutes of Health