The fight for Native food sovereignty is more than just a return to traditional diets — it's an act of resistance, resilience and reclamation. Centuries of colonization, which methodically dismantled ...

The American Indian Center’s new Food is Medicine program marks a generational and culinary shift — through braised bison with a blackberry mole sauce, and a venison dip sandwich with giardiniera — ...

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PULLMAN, Wash. — Landon Charlo is an assistant professor of Native American food systems at Washington State University. It’s a brand-new position at WSU. “I’ve really been feeling like an ...

A near-empty warehouse for a Native American food distribution program. The federal Food Distribution Programs on Indian Reservations and other food programs are running out of staples such as fruit ...

It's hard to precisely define new Native cuisine, partly due to the diversity of culinary traditions among Indigenous peoples, but also because Native American chefs often interpret the phrase ...

“De Neve has never looked this good,” said second-year economics student Elizabeth Marmer. As she walked into the dining hall, Marmer was met with drumming, colorful tablecloths and the smell of ...

After seven years in the foster care system, he left Colorado Springs at age 16 and drove to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he was born, to rejoin his Sicangu Lakota tribe. He ...

If you stop at a roadside restaurant anywhere between North Dakota and Oklahoma, you might not immediately get a sense of culinary diversity. Many menus in rural and small-town middle America consist ...

On a windy evening in West Los Angeles, a small group of mostly strangers gathered inside a trendy loft apartment. The 15 or so folks were an interesting cross section of humanity — from a winery ...

In running the Metlakatla Indian Community S’ndooyntgm Galts’ap Community Garden, Gatgyeda Haayk has developed a particular relationship to soil. “People misunderstand soil,” she explained. Alongside ...

The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...