Assessment Conducted by Alivia Moore (Penobscot), funded by Elmina B. Sewall Foundation

This survey is for sustenance, community and commercial Wabanaki food and medicine producers. We want to hear from you even if you don't own a business or sell what you grow or harvest. It is part of an expansive assessment of food and/or medicine businesses, organizations and projects led by Wabanaki.  This assessment will inform a report analyzing the current realities for Wabanaki food and medicine producers.  The report will include a map directory of food and medicine producers, and make recommendations regarding how Sewall Foundation, other funders, and service providers can deepen commitment to Wabanaki foodways work.  

A decolonial lens will be applied throughout this process, exploring how the broader food systems community can support Wabanaki reclamation of vibrant, resilient foodways.  The report and directory will be publicly available.  Tribal members, direct descendants, tribal government and tribal entity ventures from Abenaki, Maliseet, Micmac/Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Nations across the colonially imposed borders between the United States and Canada are invited to be included.

If your food/medicine work is for a business or community project, providing your full address will include you in the Wabanaki Food & Medicine Producer directory which will be shared publicly. If you would like to be included in the directory without your physical address being published, please email livmoore16@gmail.com. 
For completing the survey, you will be entered to win one of two $100USD gifts. 

About the researcher: Alivia Moore (she//they) of the Penobscot Nation, is a two-spirit community organizer committed to restoring balanced relationship with the earth. As co-founder of Eastern Woodlands Rematriation, they support the revitalization of indigenous food & healing systems, including the development of the Wabanaki Community Apothecary, Rematriation School & Indigenous birthwork reclamation. She organizes with Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance, and serves on the board of Wabanaki REACH. Alivia is dedicated to child welfare system abolition and fosters native children.

About the funder: The Elmina B. Sewall Foundation supports work in Maine to improve the well-being of people, animals and the environment while fostering relationships that strive for social equity and community resilience.