If we really want to show ourselves the power that resides in our individual choices, OPT OUT OF THE PROCESSED FOOD SYSTEM. Mariah, what you are doing is important not just for indigenous people but for all of us. My husband and I have been learning how to feed ourselves with what we grow and what is grown locally. It takes time and focus and draws us together with our neighbors into local markets. It is fun and delicious! But we are also aware of how much harder it is to do on the reservation. We are helping to build a community kitchen in a remote area near Four Corners with no running water or electricity. Our Dine friends there are trying to reclaim ancient ways. One starting point has been to use bulk ordering from an organic food distribution company to get folks eating cleaner, more economically, and remembering their from-scratch recipes from their grandmothers.
Great breaking down of fry-bread and how thoroughly colonial it is. With obesity and related health problems ever increasing in our homelands your words and those of awakened others need to travel far across Turtle Island. Wopila (Thank you).
Love the idea... Eating as close to fresh-off-the-land should be good for anyone but especially the indigenous Nations. But should we eat only what's fairly local? Or could, for example, a Hopi eat bison or wild rice with the same beneficial results as a diet of the Three Sisters?
Save the Lomatiums! And camas meadows! On the Colville and Yakima Reservations they taught the greatest root diggers in the world to hoe the earth and grow potatoes. While they plowed the greatest root digging grounds- typically for monocultures of wheat and alfalfa, timothy grass to feed Japanese racehorses, that kind of thing. And what they didn't plow they unleashed cattle, weeds and ATV's upon. Then burned. Repeatedly.
Wow thanks Indykitchen very well said. I have been listening, and following your ideas ❤🌽🍒🍓🌶🫐🧄🍄🥩🌰🍅🍠🫖🍯🥛🥚🥜🧅🥦🥥🥭🍋🍉
If we really want to show ourselves the power that resides in our individual choices, OPT OUT OF THE PROCESSED FOOD SYSTEM. Mariah, what you are doing is important not just for indigenous people but for all of us. My husband and I have been learning how to feed ourselves with what we grow and what is grown locally. It takes time and focus and draws us together with our neighbors into local markets. It is fun and delicious! But we are also aware of how much harder it is to do on the reservation. We are helping to build a community kitchen in a remote area near Four Corners with no running water or electricity. Our Dine friends there are trying to reclaim ancient ways. One starting point has been to use bulk ordering from an organic food distribution company to get folks eating cleaner, more economically, and remembering their from-scratch recipes from their grandmothers.
Hello from upstate NY along the Mohawk River, the lands of the Mohawk Nation. Thank you and much success to you, Sister. Beauty all around you💕
Great breaking down of fry-bread and how thoroughly colonial it is. With obesity and related health problems ever increasing in our homelands your words and those of awakened others need to travel far across Turtle Island. Wopila (Thank you).
Excellent.
See you in Helena.
Looking forward to eating your recipes. 🌼❤️
Great talk! Wisdom in action.
Goosebumps 😶
Thank you for your wisdom!
Mariah, I would love to host a community discussion on this topic if you ever find yourself in Los Angeles. Best of luck on the Indigikitchen program.
I been teaching this where i work. A native treatment center.
truth and very inspiring
Food sovereignty! 👊
Love the idea... Eating as close to fresh-off-the-land should be good for anyone but especially the indigenous Nations. But should we eat only what's fairly local? Or could, for example, a Hopi eat bison or wild rice with the same beneficial results as a diet of the Three Sisters?
Save the Lomatiums! And camas meadows! On the Colville and Yakima Reservations they taught the greatest root diggers in the world to hoe the earth and grow potatoes. While they plowed the greatest root digging grounds- typically for monocultures of wheat and alfalfa, timothy grass to feed Japanese racehorses, that kind of thing. And what they didn't plow they unleashed cattle, weeds and ATV's upon. Then burned. Repeatedly.
Goosebumps 😶