Joshua Brown, PhD, MPH, MPA
Séliš, Aaniiih& Nakóda
Pronouns: MT
Position(s):
Postdoctoral researcher with the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic at the University of Colorado.
Dr. Brown lives in the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation among his mother’s Salish family. He also has strong ties to his father’s Nakoda/Aaniiih family at Fort Belknap Indigenous Community, where he also lived. His earliest memories involve observing these communities and pondering what molded both.
Joshua examined Salish people’s food system and diet-related health outcomes while earning an MPH and a Cultural and Applied Anthropology Ph.D. His work highlights Salish peoples’ quest to protect, enjoy, and perpetuate access to traditional foods and Salish concepts of food sovereignty. He also serves on a food sovereignty committee to create food policy and programming within the CSKN government.
As a postdoctoral researcher with the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic, he focused on Indigenous data and storytelling.
He co-founded Nk̓ʷusm, a Salish language immersion school, and established a Native American Language Teacher Institute at Salish Kootenai College.
Projects(s):
AN EXAMINATION OF THE FOOD SYSTEM, FOODSCAPE, DIETARY PATTERNS, AND ACCOLATED HEALTH OUTCOMES OF SALISH PEOPLE WITHIN THE CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI NATION
Email me: spelqwa@gmail.com