Chef Brit Reed Brings Political Activism, Indigenous Traditions to the Table
For a supper club dinner celebrating her graduation from the Seattle Culinary Academy earlier this year, Brit Reed, a chef of Choctaw heritage came up with a recipe that blended Indigenous and...
View ArticleWhy the White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized Wild Rice’s Rights
Manoomin (“wild rice”) now has legal rights. At the close of 2018, the White Earth band of Ojibwe passed a law formally recognizing the Rights of Manoomin. According to a resolution, these rights were...
View ArticleIndigenous California Chefs are Reviving and Preserving Native Cuisines
Vincent Medina spent seven years as a docent at the oldest building in San Francisco, Mission Dolores, one of the 21 missions in the state at which the Spanish tried to convert Native Californians to...
View ArticleAn Indigenous Community Deepens its Agricultural Roots in Tucson’s San Xavier...
In a quiet part of Tucson, Arizona, only a few miles southwest of the city center, the San Xavier Cooperative Farm honors the agricultural legacy of the Tohono O’odham, a Native American tribe that has...
View ArticleThe ‘Nativore’ Chef Working to Improve Nutrition in Indigenous Communities
Chef Lois Ellen Frank, a member of the Kiowa Nation, presents a commanding figure in her chef whites. Standing in the middle of the sacred hogan structure, offering a cooking demonstration at the...
View ArticleWild Rice is Feeding Indigenous Communities in Detroit and Beyond
Civil Eats is a sponsor of the Feet in 2 Worlds journalism workshop, Telling Immigrant Food Stories, taking place in San Francisco May 31-June 2. This article originally appeared in the Feet in 2...
View ArticleIndigenous Food Security is Dependent on Food Sovereignty
Several times a year, the locals at Orleans, California see a surge of sport fishermen and trophy hunters come through town, driving big trucks decked out in camouflage and sporting polarized fishing...
View ArticleThe Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Food Economies
For Sicangu Lakota water protector Cheryl Angel, Standing Rock helped her define what she stands against: an economy rooted in extraction of resources and exploitation of people and planet. It wasn’t...
View ArticleAs Water Sources Dry Up, Arizona Farmers Feel the Heat of Climate Change
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.Fall is a busy time for Knorr Farms, a family operation that...
View ArticleA New Bill Could Help Protect the Sacred Seeds of Indigenous People
Clayton Brascoupé has farmed in the red-brown foothills of New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains for more than 45 years. A Mohawk-Anishnaabe originally from a New York reservation, Brascoupé married...
View ArticleThe Native Musician and Poet Revitalizing Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Lyla June is a musician, public speaker, and internationally recognized performance poet of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and Northern European lineages. A young elder with a rare wisdom,...
View ArticleIndigenous Youth Reboot Acorns to Revive Food Sovereignty
In late fall, the parched hills of Northern California are wilting hot, but relief can be found in the dark patches of shade cast by towering native oaks. Some are hundreds of years old, with spreading...
View ArticleFirst Look: A New Docuseries Highlights Leading Indigenous Chefs
Food does so much more than nourish the body and tantalize the taste buds. A meal can spark curiosity and conversations, and bring culture to life. But crafting something so multilayered can be a tall...
View ArticleFighting Food Colonialism in the Hopi Nation
For Rosalie Talahongva, a former business analyst and a member of the Hopi tribe, weekends on the reservation are sometimes like battles. Unlike urbanites, who might get to enjoy a relaxed morning, her...
View ArticleFor a Sustainable Food System, Look to Seeds
“Our seeds are more than just food for us. Yes, they are nutrition. But they’re also… spirituality,” says Electa Hare-RedCorn, a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and a Yankton descendant. “Each...
View ArticleRestoring Food Sovereignty on the Spirit Lake Reservation
Mary DuBois walks slowly through one of two aisles of what looks a lot like a grocery store. As she chooses her family’s monthly groceries, she passes rows filled with boxes of cereal, bags of rice,...
View ArticleCoronavirus Is Creating a Food Security Crisis in Indian Country
“There’s no way this is going to end well,” said Catherine Bryan, explaining the dire circumstances Native tribes are facing as coronavirus has taken hold in their communities. Bryan is the director of...
View ArticleHow The Fry Bread House, a Mainstay of Indigenous Cuisine, Perseveres
On a recent Thursday, the lunch rush at The Fry Bread House in central Phoenix was more of a trickle. By noon, there were a few cars in the sunny lot, which had always been full in pre-pandemic days....
View ArticleOp-ed: Migrant Farmworkers, Native Ranchers in Border States Hit Hardest by...
As COVID-19 raised its ugly head in the rural areas of Southwest borderlands this winter, I recalled the conditions among farmworkers described by Jeff Banister, now director of the Southwest Center at...
View ArticleFood as Medicine on the Navajo Nation
In March, when COVID-19 closed down the schools in Kayenta, Arizona—just 25 miles from Chilchinbito, home to the first known case on the Navajo Nation—the school district enlisted its bus drivers to...
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