Pauline Terbasket from the Okanagan Nation Alliance, emphasized that Indigenous people need to have more agency in the preservation of indigenous foods. She mentioned organizations in Canada who have budget line items for Indigenous food sovereignty work, but she doesn’t see real action from them. “We are the power, we are the change, we are the ones who are responsible for taking care of our own foods.” She has been “reinvigorated and recharged” by interacting with people internationally through Slow Food gatherings who are going through similar struggles. Photo by Elizabeth Hoover