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Footprints for Change

An Indigenous Entrepreneur Weaves Traditional Teachings into His Fair Trade Coffee Business

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

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This chapter concerns Birch Bark Coffee, a fair trade coffee business begun by Mark Marsolais-Nahwegahbow, an Ojibwe man. For every 100 coffee bags sold in retail stores and for every 50 bags sold online to consumers, the Birch Bark Coffee company delivers and installs a certified water purification system in one Indigenous home.

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Sarah Niman

Sarah Niman is a freelance writer and an articling student who lives and works on the unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory also known as Ottawa. She has a bachelor of journalism from Carelton University, and a juris doctor in common law from the University of Ottawa, with an option in Aboriginal law and Indigenous legal traditions.