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Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Systems Coloring Book

Aug. 28, 2026
Ruth Pannill
Coloringbookcover

Check out our new coloring book about Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Systems!

This coloring book teaches young growers that our food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) are living relatives that need our care. When we protect the land, rivers, and sunlight that sustain us, we protect the future for all beings.
 
Created by two Diné women, Chelsie Begoody and Bree Lameman, with support from the Indigenous Resilience Center at the University of Arizona, Intermountain West Transformation Network (NSF Grant #2115169), Native FEWS Alliance (NSF Grant #2120035), and Nurturing Plants, this book invites and brings together Indigenous knowledge, science, and art to help children learn through reciprocity, relationship, and balance.
 
Artist Bios: 

Chelsie Begoody is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleepy Rock), born for Tsénijikini (Honeycomb Rock). Her maternal grandfather is Ashįįh (Salt Clan), and her paternal grandfather is Tábaahá (Water’s Edge Clan). She is a Diné woman from Burnside, Navajo Nation. She’s an emerging artist working in acrylic painting, digital illustration, and murals. Most of her artwork centers Indigenous youth, whom she describes as “little medicine people” because they bring joy, healing, and hope into the world. Through her art, she hopes to inspire empowerment amongst young people and k’é which are the relationships we hold with ourselves, one another, and the universe. Chelsie is currently living and painting near Dookʼoʼoosłííd (“the summit that never thaws”) which is the west sacred mountain for Diné people.

IG: @zzzrock.grl

Bree Lameman is Diné (Navajo) from Shiprock, Navajo Nation. Her clans are Táchii’nii (Red Running into Water Clan), Nidáá Diné (Corn People), Bit'ahnii (Within her Cover Clan), and Tódích’íí’nii (Bitter Water Clan). She is a third-year PhD student in the Health Behavior Health Promotion program at the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health (MEZCOPH), with a focus on Indigenous food, energy, and water systems (FEWS).

Her life’s work and passion are rooted in the land, Diné culture, language, and lived experience. From a young age, Bree cares for the land by reclaiming and revitalizing traditional agricultural practices, which nurtured a deep relationship with food and ancestral foodways. Through her roles as a farmer, community member, relative, and aunty, she has come to understand the interconnectedness of ancestral foods, the land, water, animals, and her community.

Her current focus and heart work are in Indigenous food sovereignty, health, and data sovereignty/governance. She is committed to community-led research that uplifts Indigenous knowledge and food systems. Her aim is to advance health and wellbeing through culturally grounded, collaborative approaches. She is also deeply dedicated to building ethical, reciprocal research relationships with Indigenous communities.

IG: @breenanise & @nurturing _ plants
Website: breenanise.com

 

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