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Construct an evidence based argument about the connections between foods and culture for Native Nations of the Pacific Northwest. Discover how the Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project organizes, plans, and acts in order to address injustices and strengthen ties to culture.
The Pacific Northwest is home to numerous tribes of Native Americans. They have a rich culture and history, which includes their cuisine. The traditional foods of these tribes were based on the natural resources available in their region, including seafood, berries, and game meat.
Northwest natives have had a rich history with abundant and variety-full food. Access to fish, berries, and animals to hunt gave natives a strong social culture present in virtually no other hunting and gathering societies, comprised of distinct social classes each with different tasks.
Foods of Northwest Tribes. Those living along the Northwest coast such as the Bella Bella, Bella Coola, Chinook, Coosans, Haida, Kwakiutls, Makah, Nootkans, Quileutes, Salish, Tillamook, Tlingit, and Upper Umpqua were supported by a vast amount of foods from the ocean and the lush land.
Camas are an essential, nutrition-packed First Food and a mainstay of Northwest traditional diets on both sides of the Cascades. For some, it was their first bulb harvest. Others brought handmade...
If you have no idea what Indigenous food is, here are just a few of the places throughout the Northwest you can try for yourself. For those living in Spokane, Washington, there is Indigenous Eats, which serves Indigenous comfort food and is owned by Jenny and Andrew Slagle.
Salmon is considered a “First Food” for Indigenous communities of the Upper Columbia River tribes – Coeur d’Alene, Kalispel, Kootenai and Spokane, according to a report from the First Nations...
To help raise awareness of the rich biodiversity of foods native to North America, Food Tank has compiled a list of 20 foods in the region important to the cultures and food security of North Americans.
This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members, images, objects, and other sources to help students and teachers understand the important connections between foods and cultures for Native People of the Pacific Northwest.
In Seattle and Portland, the past several years has seen the rise of Native American-owned eateries with a mission to share Indigenous foods, from cafes to food trucks to coffee houses. Three examples at the forefront of this movement are Off the Rez, Bison Coffeehouse and ʔálʔal Café.