This paper explores the intersection of food insecurity and colonial statecraft through the case of the Oneida Nation of the Thames, located in what is now southwestern Ontario, Canada. Despite being surrounded by agricultural lands, and being a high food-producing nation prior to colonial contact, the community exists within a food desert, reflecting the violent legacies and ongoing structures of settler colonialism. The intended paper and presentation investigates how colonial policies—through land dispossession, environmental degradation, and the denial of economic opportunities—have systematically undermined the Oneida Nation’s access to culturally appropriate food, creating conditions of dependence on external food aid systems and state welfare programs. Drawing on the framework of hunger as biopolitical control, this paper examines how nutrition assistance programs not only perpetuate food dependency but also obscure the deeper colonial mechanisms producing hunger. It considers the community’s efforts to reclaim food sovereignty through agricultural revitalization projects, cultural restoration, and community-based strategies to rebuild sustainable food systems. These acts of resistance, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, offer anti-colonial pathways toward food justice. By framing food access as part of a struggle for sovereignty, it underscores the need for food systems that resist colonial dependency and prioritize Indigenous self-determination. Through this lens, the Oneida Nation’s journey toward rebuilding anti-imperial communal food systems offers insights into the possibilities of resilience and resistance against colonial oppression.