Native America Calling: Alaska Native foodways, gardening and agriculture in the classroom

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The Menu: Insights into Alaska Native foodways, wellness in the garden, and ag in the classroom

Iñupiaq and Yup’ik writer Laureli Ivanoff illuminating Alaska Native foodways has been recognized with a 2024 James Beard Media Award. Three of her High Country News dispatches on subsistence won the Columns and Newsletters category for Journalism.

Dakota gardener Teresa Peterson’s new book, Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden, is a tour through the seasons and a story about how gardening, and resulting recipes, affect everyday life, family, healing, and wellness.

“Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden” by Teresa Peterson (University of Minnesota Press 2024)

And a pilot program by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education at a New Mexico high school puts agriculture into the curriculum.

That’s all on The Menu on Native America Calling, a special feature hosted and produced by Andi Murphy.

The Native American Agriculture Fund and the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) have partnered to bring BIE students…
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Guests on Native America Calling

Teresa Peterson (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and citizen of the Upper Sioux Community), author and gardener

Laureli Ivanoff (Yup’ik and Iñupiaq, member of the Native Village Uŋalaqłiq), writer and advocate

Toni Stanger-McLaughlin (Colville Confederated Tribes), CEO of the Native American Agriculture Fund