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Native America Calling: Turkey stories, Finding Manoomin and more on The Menu
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The Menu: Turkey stories, Finding Manoomin, salmon restoration, and a Native twist on boba
In Navajo origin stories, the turkey is a hero. He gathers up all the seeds from the third world and brings them to the fourth world we live in today. Many other tribes revere turkeys and make use of their feathers.
Anishinaabe journalist Leah Lemm documents her own cultural reconnection by gathering wild rice, or manoomin, in her home reservation in Minnesota for the first time.
Salmon are coming back to the tributaries of the Klamath River in California for the first time in a century after tribes helped bring about the largest dam removal project in history.
And a Diné entrepreneur creates an unlikely fusion of traditional flavors and the increasingly popular boba drink craze.
Those are the topics all on The Menu, Native America Calling’s regular feature on Indigenous food stories and news.
Guests on Native America Calling
Kenneth Brink (Karuk), vice chairman of the Karuk Tribe, headquartered in California
Sheldon Blackhorse (Diné), cultural advisor, actor, and math tutor
Kevin Wilson (Diné), owner of Native Boba Tea Co., a business located in New Mexico and the Navajo Nation
Leah Lemm (citizen of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe), journalist and senior editor for MPR News in Minnesota

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