The Three Sisters of Native Food

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On the east coast, where my partners from, a hes hodnashone onondaga, from new york. A lot of their discussions about indigenous food are about corn beans and squash. But then we have prickly pear cacti in montana, and those produce the same edible fruit as blackfeet people. And so of course, native people used drying as our primary preservation technique.

Shoving elk into a dorm room freezer. The wildest tasting rice. Flower bulbs, acorn whoopie pies, frybread debates, mushroom foraging tips, corn magic, puffball mythology, decolonized diets, squash lasagna, bison harvests, small worlds, Instapots and – most importantly – food sovereignty with the WONDERFUL Indigikitchen cooking show host, environmental scientist Mariah Gladstone, who reminds us all that native foods aren’t a part of a past, but an essential and exciting aspect of the future.

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Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary

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