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Native America Calling: The Trump administration, endangered fish and a new book
Friday, February 28, 2025
The Menu: Trump’s executive orders on tribal ag, a new children’s book, and conserving an endangered fish in North Carolina
Federal staff layoffs, spending freezes and other executive orders by the Donald Trump administration jeopardize food pathways for tribes and federal grants and loans for Native farmers.
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is helping conservation of an endangered fish called the Sicklefin Redhorse. Known in the Cherokee language as Ugiidatli, it has a long and traditional relationship with the tribe in the southeast.
The first children’s book by Squamish ethnobotanist Leigh Joseph teaches young about Indigenous plant knowledge and harvesting. This Land Knows Me: A Nature Walk Exploring Indigenous Wisdom is an engaging lesson on the plants around us and the cultural stories that go along with them.
That’s all on The Menu, Native America Calling’s regular special feature on Indigenous food, hosted and produced by Andi Murphy.
Guests on Native America Calling
Carly Griffith Hotvedt (Cherokee Nation), executive director of the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative at the University of Arkansas School of Law
Styawat / Leigh Joseph (Skwxwú7mesh). ethnobotanist, knowledge keeper, professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, and owner of Sḵwálwen Botanicals, a business in British Columbia
Dr. Caleb Hickman (Cherokee Nation), supervisory fisheries and wildlife biologist for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina
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