Foraging from Mother Earth
Perplexed that no one was promoting Māori food, a New Zealand chef ventured to acquaint his people with their native flavors. Today, Charles Royal offers food tours and supplies sustainably foraged plants from the bush.
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Blackfeet Researcher Leads Her Tribe Back to Traditional Foods
“Our people survived genocide in part because of [traditional] foods and medicines,” Beck says. “And because our elders are passing away and global warming is changing how our environment functions, now is a significant time to capture elders’ knowledge and our own community’s history.”
Crete Cook Cultivates Crete’s Sustainable Sanctuaries
CCS is an educational program that organizes award-winning seminar series, focusing on culture, nature, sustainable organic agriculture, and traditional cuisine. Since its founding, the program has hosted more than 3,000 students, teachers, researchers, and journalists. These seminars include visits to historic sites, discussions with local producers, and cooking lessons.
The Mythos We Live By: The Black Snake and the Row of Flags
Perhaps seven generations from now our descendants will be walking in the myths and values that we are dreaming for them today. Let’s start with this one: Mni Wiconi: Water is Life.
At Standing Rock, No One Goes Hungry: The Kitchen That Serves Traditional Lakota Food and Values
Hundreds of water protectors gathered in a solar-powered 200-foot geodesic dome nestled on the plains amid tipis and waited three hours to join a traditional Lakota dinner on Thanksgiving.
Indigenous Rights and the Fight for Life at Standing Rock
With the announcement that the Dakota Access Pipeline will be re-routed, the water protectors at Standing Rock might have won a battle but they have not yet won the war.
To Sure Up Island Food Security, Hawaii’s ‘Mahiai Match-Up’ Competition Offers Farmers Land and Seed Money
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Standing Firm at Standing Rock: Why the Struggle is Bigger Than One Pipeline
For indigenous people, the fight to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline is about reviving a way of life.
Earthcare Warrior Women
“This is a female moment in time,” observes Rev Dele, founder of the Virginia-based, Soil Souls. “The Earth and society are about to give birth to a new culture. It’s women who give birth to that which is yet unseen.”
At Standing Rock, a Sense of Purpose: “This Is How We Should Be Living”
Here, with a purpose that threads through generations, work, celebration, and activism are a seamless whole.
Northwest Tribes Band Together to Stop Oil-by-Rail
There’s no such thing as a good place for an oil-train derailment, but this year’s June 3 spill outside Mosier, Oregon, could have been worse if the 16 oil cars had derailed and caught fire even a few hundred feet in either direction.
Tribes Create Their Own Food Laws to Stop USDA From Killing Native Food Economies
From blue corn to bison, narrow federal food-safety codes impact tribal food systems. But advocates are writing their own food laws to preserve Native food sovereignty.