Indigenous Cuisinology (NATIVE COOKING) with Mariah Gladstone of Indigikitchen

Indigikitchen cooking show host, environmental scientist, and Indigenous Cuisinologist Mariah Gladstone wears a scoopneck shirt and looks into camera with a slight smile. Photo by Thae A• Gho Weñs Cook

Shoving elk into a dorm room freezer. The wildest tasting rice. Flower bulbs, acorn whoopie pies, frybread debates, mushroom foraging tips, puffball mythology, corn magic, 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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Mariah’s website, Twitter and Instagram

A donation was made to FASTBlackfeet.org


Links you may enjoy:

Interested in a fellowship with Indigenous Food Sovereignty? APPLY NOW: The National Congress of American Indians is seeking applicants for its Tribal Food Sovereignty Advancement Initiative’s Tribal Food Sovereignty Fellowship. It’s a six-month, paid position for entry-level, college graduates. More information here.

Via the Decolonize Diet Project Facebook group

Indigikitchen: About

VIDEO: Indigikitchen Today Show segment

VIDEO: Native American Nutrition Conference Day 1: Mariah Gladstone

VIDEO: Mariah’s TEDx Bozeman talk: “Indigikitchen: Healing from trauma through traditional foodways”

Sunflower butter popcorn recipe

Cuisinology usage 

Tribes Create Their Own Food Laws to Stop USDA From Killing Native Food Economies

Check out the musical crafts & soaps by Thae A• Gho Weñs Cook 

Cut Bank Press article on Evans Ranch

VIDEO: Potawatomi Berry Rice recipe on Indigikitchen 

Sean Sherman aka the Sioux Chef

NĀTIFS, An Indigenous 501c3 Founded by Sean Sherman & Dana Thompson

Indigenous Food Lab on NĀTIFS and Instagram

Abaki Beck’s work includes “Ahwahsiin: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Contemporary Food Sovereignty on the Blackfeet Reservation”

Follow Abaki on Twitter  

Crystal Wahpepah owns the Oakland restaurant Wahpepah’s Kitchen

Nixtamalization

Camus bulbs

Fry Bread: it’s complicated

Professor Devon A. Mihesuah writes about Frybread in the Native American and Indigenous Studies journal

VIDEO: “10 Indian Tribes You Are Calling By the Wrong Name” 

Prairie potato basics

​​Native American Agriculture Fund

The Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance (NAFSA) + Indigenous Seedkeepers Network

VIDEO: Grant Many Heads’ webinar on Blackfeet lodges

Cherokee kid’s language book

C and C Meats in Babb, MT

Valerie Segrest TEDxRanier talk  

Great studies via Saokio Heritage

“Feeding Ourselves: Food access, health disparities, and the pathways to healthy Native American communities.” Longmont, CO: Echo Hawk Consulting.

Piikani Lodge Health Institute 

Niitoyis: Blackfoot lodge markings

What’s an IRB?

DDP Project results and overview

Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health by Devon A. Mihesuah

Mariah’s wild rice recipe

Marketplace: American Indian Foods Program through the Intertribal Agricultural Council 

Sara Calvosa Olson’s work

Follow Sara on Instagram 

Acorn whoopie pies

Puffball mythology

Aboriginal Pathways and Trading Routes Were California’s First Highways 

Oak trees in California 

“Reservation Dogs” clip 


Cookbooks:

Elise Krohn and Valerie Segrest’s books: “Feeding the People, Feeding the Spirit: Revitalizing Northwest Coastal Indian Food Culture” and “Feeding Seven Generations: A Salish Cookbook”

Spirit of the Harvest – divided into regions 

Decolonizing Diet Project Cookbook 

The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen

LAPL has more cookbook recommendations


Other episodes you might like:

Bisonology (BUFFALO) with various bisonologists

Futurology (THE FUTURE) with Rose Eveleth

Foraging Ecology (EATING WILD PLANTS) with @BlackForager, Alexis Nikole Nelson

Indigenous Fashionology (NATIVE CLOTHING) with Riley Kucheran

Indigenous Fire Ecology (GOOD FIRE) with Dr. Amy Christianson 

Experimental Archeology (OLD TOOLS/ATLATLS) with Angelo Robledo 

Bryology (MOSS) with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Aperiology (MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY) with Joseph Saunders


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Theme song by Nick Thorburn

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