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Standing before Humboldt State’s new Indigenous Food Sovereignty Lab last week, Cody Henrikson told a small crowd that growing up, traditional foods were some of the only native practices he and his family had left after centuries of assimilation and erasure. When Henrikson, who is Denaʼina, Sugpiaq and a member of the Ninilchik Village Tribe of Alaska, moved here to attend Humboldt State University, he lost traditional foods, too.
“I lost those traditional foods and the connection to my cul...