Nawken Food Sovereignty: Restoring a recognised presence through collaborative research

This presentation will discuss a project on Nawken food sovereignty in Scotland. The presentation speaks to a growing body of research on Nawken life-ways
developed out of the language and folklore studies of Nawken elder Stanley Robertson at the University of Aberdeen. This documentary research was crucial in reinvigorating a sense of Nawken presence in Northeastern Scotland and also a realisation amongst Nawken elders that there was more activist research that could be developed. Nawken scholar and activist Davie Davidson lead the research on food sovereignty in collaboration with David Anderson and Rob Wishart with the desire to make it useful for the Nawken community according to their own community desires. We will discuss the outcomes of this research including methods of documenting evidence in ways that will be useful to the community and how it has now lead to further research on Nawken Indigineity and political presence.