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Native America Calling: Southwest food in Portland and Navajo subsistence are on The Menu
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
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The Menu: SW in Portland, Navajo livestock reduction, and cicadas
Alexa Numkena-Anderson (Hopi, Yakama, Cree, Skokomish) shares a bit of Southwest flare with Pacific Northwest flavors—to match her tribal identity—through her pop-up food business, Javelina: Indigenous Dining in Portland, Oregon.

A rare confluence of periodical cicadas is a nutritional gift and a reminder of resilience for some tribes in Southeast states. And “Nothing Left for Me,” a new museum exhibit at the University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, documents Diné perspectives on the devastating effects of the federal government’s 1930s Navajo livestock reduction program.

All of this on The Menu on Native America Calling, a regular feature about Native food hosted by Andi Murphy.

Navajo Sheep
Sheep grazing on the Arizona portion of the Navajo Nation in Leupp in 1936. Photo: Reproduction of archival photograph, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Archives, 87.45.189

Guests on Native America Calling
Alexa Numkena-Anderson (Enrolled Hopi and Yakama, Cree, and Skokomish), chef and founder of Javelina: Indigenous Dining

Dr. Jennifer Denetdale (Diné), professor and chair of American Studies at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and co-curator of the “Nothing Left for Me” exhibit at UNM’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

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