Indigikitchen: Healing from trauma through traditional foodways | Mariah Gladstone | TEDxBozeman
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2017
- As a member of the Blackfeet Nation, Mariah Gladstone shares the importance of an Indigenous based diet. For Native people, strengthening the spiritual tie enables us to see the wisdom of our ancestors and the inherent values of our identities. For non-Native people, adopting an indigenous diet encourages consideration of the gifts of the earth and how it nourishes us, while also reminding us to care for it. Gladstone poses the question of whether a nation can truly be soverign if they are unable to provide for themselves.
Mariah Gladstone grew up in Northwest Montana with one moccasin in the the Flathead Valley and one in the Blackfeet Reservation. She began developing her own recipes at the age of two and gradually started incorporating indigenous foods. She graduated from Columbia University last May with a degree in Environmental Engineering. During her time there, she was an instrumental part of the university’s Native American Council where she implemented programming around indigenous issues including environmental activism, Native humor, and physical and nutritional wellness. She has returned to Kalispell where she continues to work on Native issues, specifically developing a pre-colonial cooking show called Indigikitchen. Mariah has been recognized as one of the top 25 Under 25 leaders in Indian Country and as a Champion for Change by the Aspen Institute.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Wow thanks Indykitchen very well said. I have been listening, and following your ideas ❤🌽🍒🍓🌶🫐🧄🍄🥩🌰🍅🍠🫖🍯🥛🥚🥜🧅🥦🥥🥭🍋🍉
If we really want to show ourselves the power that resides in our individual choices, OPT OUT OF THE PROCESSED FOOD SYSTEM. Mariah, what you are doing is important not just for indigenous people but for all of us. My husband and I have been learning how to feed ourselves with what we grow and what is grown locally. It takes time and focus and draws us together with our neighbors into local markets. It is fun and delicious! But we are also aware of how much harder it is to do on the reservation. We are helping to build a community kitchen in a remote area near Four Corners with no running water or electricity. Our Dine friends there are trying to reclaim ancient ways. One starting point has been to use bulk ordering from an organic food distribution company to get folks eating cleaner, more economically, and remembering their from-scratch recipes from their grandmothers.
Great breaking down of fry-bread and how thoroughly colonial it is. With obesity and related health problems ever increasing in our homelands your words and those of awakened others need to travel far across Turtle Island. Wopila (Thank you).
Great talk! Wisdom in action.
Hello from upstate NY along the Mohawk River, the lands of the Mohawk Nation. Thank you and much success to you, Sister. Beauty all around you💕
Goosebumps 😶
Looking forward to eating your recipes. 🌼❤️
I been teaching this where i work. A native treatment center.
Excellent.
See you in Helena.
Thank you for your wisdom!
Mariah, I would love to host a community discussion on this topic if you ever find yourself in Los Angeles. Best of luck on the Indigikitchen program.
Food sovereignty! 👊
truth and very inspiring
Love the idea... Eating as close to fresh-off-the-land should be good for anyone but especially the indigenous Nations. But should we eat only what's fairly local? Or could, for example, a Hopi eat bison or wild rice with the same beneficial results as a diet of the Three Sisters?
Save the Lomatiums! And camas meadows! On the Colville and Yakima Reservations they taught the greatest root diggers in the world to hoe the earth and grow potatoes. While they plowed the greatest root digging grounds- typically for monocultures of wheat and alfalfa, timothy grass to feed Japanese racehorses, that kind of thing. And what they didn't plow they unleashed cattle, weeds and ATV's upon. Then burned. Repeatedly.
Goosebumps 😶