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  • čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
  • Native American cuisine is America's original food, dating back some 10,000 years. So why don't we see Native restaurants on every street corner in the U.S.? In this James Beard-nominated episode, Yara goes on a road trip through the American Southwest to find out.
    #NativeAmerican #Thanksgiving #Navajo
    PRESENTER/PRODUCER: Yara Elmjouie
    SENIOR PRODUCER: Tabish Talib
    PRODUCER: Adrienne Blaine
    EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ethar El-Katatney
    EDITORS: Yara Elmjouie, Tabish Talib
    ANIMATOR: Zeino ( / zeino )
    CAMERA: Tabish Talib, Yara Elmjouie
    COLOR & SOUND MIXING: Ahmad Asaad
    STORY CONSULTANT: Tasha Hauff
    BRANDING/LOGO: Mohammad Aklik, Mohammad Kakhi
    FEATURING: Lois Ellen Frank (Red Mesa Cuisine), Walter Whitewater (Red Mesa Cuisine), Ben Jacobs (Tocabe), Matt Chandra (Tocabe)
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  • @athenag.217
    @athenag.217 Před 4 lety +1112

    I'm an Oglala Lakota teen who's been living on the Navajo Nation for years, and it made me happy to see how respectful you were and how you did your research and even made it educational for the viewers. It's definitely a breath of fresh air after how much we're neglected by the majority of the non-native population. I really didn't know what to expect when I tapped on this video, but I'm not disappointed and even learned something! It's no surprise that I'm lactose intolerant now.

    • @wallec4140
      @wallec4140 Před 4 lety +12

      Yá’át’ééh!

    • @amstevens23
      @amstevens23 Před 4 lety +8

      Most of us are lactose intolerant.

    • @athenag.217
      @athenag.217 Před 4 lety +7

      @@amstevens23 yeah no joke, i didn't even realize until sophomore year when my gas and stomachaches magically went away on the days i didn't drink milk 🥴🥴

    • @yg6484
      @yg6484 Před 4 lety

      I’m glad you feel that way.

    • @sanael1348
      @sanael1348 Před 3 lety +12

      I'm sorry for what happened to your nation, but the future is yours to take ❤️

  • @mothastrud
    @mothastrud Před 4 lety +153

    As a Mexican, I think my people should acknowledge our native ancestry more. I was extremely fascinated by all the similar ingredients we share. Even our expressions, “don’t cook if you’re mad because the food will be bitter”, but instead we say “the food will be spicy”.

    • @SuperParamorefan567
      @SuperParamorefan567 Před 3 lety +18

      Exactly, even most of us are mostly indigenous

    • @marshalln553
      @marshalln553 Před rokem +12

      Same people y’all are just more down south. border’s weren’t a thing a long time ago

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

    • @leonelvargas4443
      @leonelvargas4443 Před rokem +1

      ✊🏽🪶

    • @HailKale
      @HailKale Před 4 měsíci +1

      We do have similar dishes. Their staple being corn for example. I’ve had blue, purple corn in Mexico so good. Calabasitas is my favorite dish and it’s native.

  • @MrTacoMan247
    @MrTacoMan247 Před 4 lety +427

    I am an Alaskan native American and this guy was very respectful of our culture. He did a great job explaining the history and everything. Thank you for spreading the word about native food and culture. I give you much respect!

    • @user-us9yk5lb9m
      @user-us9yk5lb9m Před 2 lety

      And have yor ancestrs were removed by force? I don't think so

    • @indigo-streak9912
      @indigo-streak9912 Před 2 lety +3

      @@user-us9yk5lb9m What are you trying to prove?

    • @user-us9yk5lb9m
      @user-us9yk5lb9m Před 2 lety

      @@indigo-streak9912where to begin... the native American culture and alaskan is not even close. There was no forced deportations, cuisine is absolutely different. Is that will be enough for you?

    • @Spartan11248
      @Spartan11248 Před 2 lety

      @@indigo-streak9912 Ignore that idiot Alaska native are considered native Americans sure they may have not had to go through the trail of tears and that was because the trail if tears was around 1843-1850 (might have started early that 1843 but it did stop around 1850) and Alaska was bought around 1860s so they didn't have to be part of the trail of tears. Now that being said the word native American was actually create in the 1960s (really) this was because they use to call native Americans indians and when they started using the phrase native American they included native Alaskans. Native Americans is a name for the people who were there before people colonized North America and since Alaska is apart of America after the us bought it they are considered native Americans because they were there before anyone else.

    • @shrekwithawillsmithface465
      @shrekwithawillsmithface465 Před 2 lety +3

      @@user-us9yk5lb9m
      jimmy are we playing the who's more opressed game again?

  • @alpsalms9162
    @alpsalms9162 Před 5 lety +340

    OK! I grew up eating Cheyenne food until becoming a teenager. My Grandma and MOM were basically the last ones who cooked that way. Off the REZ there
    wasn't buffalo/salmon let along deer meat available. I cook the salmon, buffalo and not the fried bread. It is a miracle we survived. I also was told our food
    would be respected again. Those old Cheyenne Women were right about our food being sacred/healthy.

    • @svily0
      @svily0 Před 4 lety +10

      One must eat the food his ancestors ate. I remember seeing a documentary about a tribe in Mexico (I think) which mostly ate beans and low caloric diet, presented with hotdogs they all turned obese. Genetics! As a Bulgarian, I eat pork lard, salo, bacon, fermented vegetables, bread (you can take the bread from my dead cold hands) and everything my grandparents ate and survived till their 90-es.

    • @GlennTillema
      @GlennTillema Před 4 lety +5

      From what I understand seeing a video about "The Sioux Chef" was that fried bread isn't native, he called it, "poverty food." Something they made from the government "care" packages. Native foods don't contain dairy like milk, cream, or butter.
      edit - Looks like they cover that here @10:30

    • @svily0
      @svily0 Před 4 lety +1

      @@GlennTillema Not that I'm arguing or anything, just a passing thought. Lobsters were once upon a time the food of the poor people.

    • @rosemali3022
      @rosemali3022 Před 4 lety +7

      If possible, you should keep the recipes alive by sharing on the internet. Weve already lost so much, your family may be the connection to traditional or even traditional inside of families variations the world has left.

    • @svily0
      @svily0 Před 4 lety +1

      @@rosemali3022 Agrees with you, I really lost my grandparents when I was too young to pay attention, I miss those local tastes, almost gone now.

  • @mr.mittensiscalmlikeabomb4434

    I keep telling my mom she needs to open a native restaurant! Love to be shared!

  • @ZhangtheGreat
    @ZhangtheGreat Před 4 lety +232

    I ate at Tocabe when I visited Denver. Despite it being designed like a fast food diner, the food was high-class-restaurant-quality good! I recommend it for anyone in the Denver area.
    A few months later, I visited the Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts and spoke with actual members of the Wampanoag nation (the first nation to encounter the Pilgrims in 1620). One member told me he was relieved because "we can be ourselves again" after having their way of life basically restricted for nearly four hundred years. It's refreshing to know that, for some Native American nations, their ways of life are being revived once more.

    • @shevahauser1780
      @shevahauser1780 Před 3 lety +1

      I grew up in the Boston area, and iv been to plimouth plantation, and sturbridge village; theyre incredible and amazing, I loved learning from them as a child.

    • @jennac6954
      @jennac6954 Před 3 lety +1

      Gonna have to try it next time I'm on Denver🤤

    • @claudekingstan4084
      @claudekingstan4084 Před 3 lety

      I live in Denver and will want to try it soon ☺️

    • @chrishelmuth4065
      @chrishelmuth4065 Před rokem

      🥰🥰🥰😎😎😎😍😍😍

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      @@jennac6954 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @coloradorose8559
    @coloradorose8559 Před 4 lety +240

    I teared up when they started mentioning the long walk. As it was told by my family, my ancestors were part of it, they were a group of 5 brothers and sisters.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @necallidellago8962
    @necallidellago8962 Před 5 lety +751

    Mexican food is mostly Native American food. Beans, Corn, Squash, Chili's, Tomatoes, etc have been eaten by Mexicans and other indigenous cultures for thousands of years prior to colonialism. The spanish introduced different meats like pork and beef but Mexican cuisine still uses the primary ingredients that Native Americans have always used. A lot foods we consider Latin are actually Native American like Tortillas, Tamales, Nopales, salsa, etc are ancient foods eaten by cultures like the Mexica (Aztecs) where Mexico actually get its name from. Native food is alive as it has always been but great video and I agree that our Northern brothers and sisters should open more Northern style restaurants, id love to give them a try.

    • @ALYoungFuture13
      @ALYoungFuture13 Před 5 lety +50

      Necalli Del Lago Indigenous American food survives well through the islands 🌴 and Mexico

    • @casperfarva4824
      @casperfarva4824 Před 5 lety +4

      Evy Jay yes when New Spain was a country and because of that I have native and Central American in my dna. Yet I have no idea how I got the Spanish in me.

    • @lilia8545
      @lilia8545 Před 5 lety +21

      @@evyjay8139 true, tho the amount of Spanish and Native in their blood depends on the person. Some have more Spanish ( the majority, sad I know ) and others more native ( more to the south ). Studies have found that people with more native blood are more likely to be poor. I find it really depressing.

    • @samaraisnt
      @samaraisnt Před 4 lety +20

      @@evyjay8139 The "similar holidays" isn't through choice, it is through Colonization and the withstanding Catholicism forced onto Mexico. Remember how the Natives of Mexica "received" the "gift" of Catholicism....it was not by choice or by adoption. Get that straight. The language is not a choice either. They burned all our books but 3 which survive and outlawed the language, very similar to what white men did in the Americas.

    • @evyjay8139
      @evyjay8139 Před 4 lety +15

      Dave Wesley sorry, just saw this. It’s still a theory that Native Americans migrated from Asia. There’s no solid proof on it yet. And even if they did, it was at a time when the rest of the world was migrating around too. But no one seems to discredit anyone else.

  • @Pikadb8815
    @Pikadb8815 Před 3 lety +130

    This hit me hard as a Palestinian whose grandparents have been kicked out of their lands, robbed of their identity, culture, and food!
    I feel you my native American fellows

    • @angelonino2841
      @angelonino2841 Před 3 lety +4

      *native fellows dont call us americans that shit is colonization at its finest. thank you.

    • @covfefe1787
      @covfefe1787 Před 2 lety +5

      @@angelonino2841 you realize that Amerindians arent the only indigenous population in the world examples include Europeans who are indigenous to Europe Asians who are indigenous to Asia Africans who are indigenous to Africa. the world doesn’t revolve around you Bub. so yes its native American.

    • @Yochillbruh0h
      @Yochillbruh0h Před 2 lety +9

      Yes but both the Palestinians and Israelis have ancestral ties to that land. The Israelites left because of multiple occupations, such as the Romans, Muslims, and the Crusaders which is a reason the Jews left. After WWII the Allies helped the Jews create the country of Israel. However, there were already Palestinians who lived that land after the Jews left. The Palestinians were also natives to that land and descend from the Canaanites. They did not leave that area. I don’t know why, maybe something to do with the Canaanites being Muslim so it may have aided them from persecution from other Muslims and it gave them more allies during the crusades. That is a hypothesis though so, very uncertain. In the end that land is ancestral homeland to both Jews and Palestinians. Southern Palestine/Israel originally belonged to the Canaanites while North was the Jews.

    • @hasnainqureshi3773
      @hasnainqureshi3773 Před 2 lety +9

      @@Yochillbruh0h the problem is the that those settlers Aren't Israelis
      They are European claiming to be children of Israel
      We Muslim can also raise the claim that spain is our

    • @hasnainqureshi3773
      @hasnainqureshi3773 Před 2 lety

      @@Yochillbruh0h all this started because of the British
      Jews used to live in Palestine before ww1 under ottoman rule
      I doubt any European can trace these blood bad to the children of Israel

  • @christinaphoenixowl7642
    @christinaphoenixowl7642 Před 4 lety +218

    I remember I once told my mom that tomatoes weren't native to Italy (we are italian) after learning about this in school and she was so mad about it 😂

    • @Albanez39
      @Albanez39 Před 4 lety +6

      Hahahaha, lo stesso con mio padre :P

    • @FactStorm
      @FactStorm Před 3 lety +28

      It's true, people presume things only based off of what they were taught. Without South America, Italian cuisine would be mundane without the almighty tomato!

    • @cr4zyj4ck
      @cr4zyj4ck Před 3 lety +24

      I told my Cambodian ex-wife that dragonfruit is native to Mexico, not Cambodia, and she got all mad and said "how do you know, you read it in a book, but the author of the book wasn't there, so they're just wrong and lying."

    • @FactStorm
      @FactStorm Před 3 lety +5

      @@cr4zyj4ck LMAO

    • @claudekingstan4084
      @claudekingstan4084 Před 3 lety +24

      @@FactStorm Yes and without the Chinese’s noodles, there would be no italian pasta.

  • @Swapcovers
    @Swapcovers Před 4 lety +556

    How everyone, is saddened by my people's history is making me cry. I didn't think anyone cared for my people.

    • @plantpants8950
      @plantpants8950 Před 4 lety +32

      We always will ❤️ good will win. Don’t give up hope!

    • @maggiechan33
      @maggiechan33 Před 4 lety +59

      @ExpensiveGORL
      As you can see here, A LOT OF US, do care.
      I and decent Americans, will always consider you THE FIRST AMERICANS.

    • @hwnboy925
      @hwnboy925 Před 4 lety +12

      They really don't care, that's why they want to force us into concentration camps they call reservations.

    • @katietan3153
      @katietan3153 Před 4 lety +34

      we care. Your people matter to us, just some of us don't live in the US. We will not let your history and truths be erased.

    • @maggiechan33
      @maggiechan33 Před 4 lety +8

      @@katietan3153
      THANX, Katie.

  • @fantaisie3507
    @fantaisie3507 Před 5 lety +220

    I started to feel so happy after they mentioned blue corn mush. This honestly made my day seeing people who aren't Native American taste the food.

    • @ezra._0
      @ezra._0 Před 5 lety +7

      What is it called in your tribe? In mine it's called háy'ani.

    • @alannahllama
      @alannahllama Před 4 lety +6

      I wish I could try the food. Even imported I can’t get half the ingredients to try it :( the dish called posu 🤤 looks like something I’d love!

    • @kamimikuta4929
      @kamimikuta4929 Před 4 lety +7

      Im a white american and I have some native american blood in me and I hate how I cant really get in touch with my native american ancestry because they don't know enough about it. I loved watching about this. If I could i would learn everything about the language and culture of my ancestors if I could.

    • @fantaisie3507
      @fantaisie3507 Před 3 lety

      @@ezra._0 lmao mb on the 1 year late response but i sadly don't know much about writing in my language so i don't know how to write it

    • @ezra._0
      @ezra._0 Před 3 lety +3

      @@fantaisie3507 it's okay my spelling was a guess as well. My tribe has no writing system and is to be passed down from elders but if we want to write something they encourage us just to spell it as we see fit.

  • @ruth540
    @ruth540 Před 5 lety +659

    I'm from Northern Ireland yet I hadn't a clue what happened to the Natives of America. I understand the feeling of having culture stolen away from your people, but not to the degree that these poor people went through.

    • @MinttMeringue
      @MinttMeringue Před 5 lety +57

      I mean, we dont even teach our kids that much about it. A lot of people want to brush over it and act like we never did anything to the natives and it's just "life so deal with it ubu". So yeah, I doubt other countries have any info either

    • @JoseMartinez-df2db
      @JoseMartinez-df2db Před 5 lety +41

      rebecca finn The United States just re-established concentration camps for Native Peoples and no one is talking and it.

    • @mccari09
      @mccari09 Před 5 lety +1

      Move to over the line to Ireland then... god luck with the eu lol

    • @mccari09
      @mccari09 Před 5 lety +3

      Strawberry Cupcake native Americans are also immigrants

    • @thecelticcrone7927
      @thecelticcrone7927 Před 5 lety +36

      mccari09
      Ummmmm, NO, They really Aren’t. When a Peoples have Lived In a place and Interbred with The Original Indigenous, THEIR DESCENDANTS 10,000 Years LATER Have become Indigenous to That Land! I mean, Are You Utterly DAFT??

  • @bltotrs92
    @bltotrs92 Před 5 lety +2505

    maybe one day a native american will be president of the US

    • @Franciscavid
      @Franciscavid Před 5 lety +111

      and then all will be fine

    • @marinadanic9775
      @marinadanic9775 Před 5 lety +46

      Omg yesss

    • @ghendry7925
      @ghendry7925 Před 5 lety +282

      It's sounds weird when you say that out loud ...because it should already be a thing 🙄

    • @MinttMeringue
      @MinttMeringue Před 5 lety +146

      It's so odd to think that yeah
      ... a native literally hasn't been president. That many haven't even been in Congress or anything...

    • @felimryan5651
      @felimryan5651 Před 5 lety +11

      What would be the benefit though?

  • @Ju-bj3ko
    @Ju-bj3ko Před 4 lety +103

    Ah, finally found it, real American cuisine.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem +1

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @khourierenee865
    @khourierenee865 Před 5 lety +694

    Yes Yes Yes Native food and Native Culture are making a strong comeback. I'm so excited

    • @jedhawkins1769
      @jedhawkins1769 Před 5 lety +6

      Thank God for that.

    • @khourierenee865
      @khourierenee865 Před 5 lety +1

      Jed Hawkins Hell Yeah 🙌🏾

    • @khourierenee865
      @khourierenee865 Před 5 lety +3

      lobsterbale Legesse Its a lot that people refused to acknowledge about indigenous foods and medicines but times are a changing and I'm lovin it!!!

    • @khourierenee865
      @khourierenee865 Před 5 lety

      T S Its coming full circle

    • @Orthagoni
      @Orthagoni Před 5 lety +1

      finally

  • @ANTPHRESSH89
    @ANTPHRESSH89 Před 5 lety +979

    We are the 7th Generation. Still living on the reservations. This is like a invisible prison. We live in hell. So we fear nothing. My tribe is Cheyenne we had many run ins with the white man. Yet we dont hate the white man for that burdens too much energy and takes up too much time. Time is valuable. All we wanna do is live comfortably like everybody else. We have so much rage. Thats why we take time to pray and burn sage. Honoring our fallen warriors who now lay silent in the graves across this continent. We are doing our best for dealing with this issue of rage. Time calls for healing. For the ancestors who died for us would want it that way. So today i prayed and layed down tobacco before the moon popped up in the sky. Sometimes i sit by the creek bed and ask why i say why did all this happen. All this war lead to no satisfaction. Just action with no solution. My elders slowly walked up to me and said this is just how things were back then. Europeans just want to win. They feel our lives is a game. But us indigenous folk we just wanna live. We love mother earth from within. We are all related. We are one. We have a undeniable connection with the sun. So no worries just love and pray for better days. Stack a bundle and lay down wheatgrass for your ancestors show them respect. She hugged me then said i wish our people the best. I kissed my granny on the cheek and sang a traditional song with her before we turned it in and went to sleep. The passion i hold for my people runs deep. My native cry. #MyPoetry

    • @thoughtdistorted
      @thoughtdistorted Před 5 lety +115

      J Briggs you’re not a very nice person, are you?

    • @salamandah69
      @salamandah69 Před 5 lety +5

      😰💔💔💔

    • @angeliparraguirre7329
      @angeliparraguirre7329 Před 5 lety +2

      I wouldn't say that
      Tho if the several native peoples are willing to build bridges and learn from one another good things may come

    • @Drpronanimus
      @Drpronanimus Před 5 lety +10

      @@jeffbriggs1987 ... js... stop getting free hound outs and work like the rest of us.. trust me.. people on the res get more than anyone else. Stop being a victim.. take your handouts and use that as a stepping stone to rise above the rest of us that don't get shhhhhh.

    • @jingles1176
      @jingles1176 Před 5 lety +93

      I'm sorry you got some ignorant comments below your beautiful poetry. I got to experience living on a native reservation for 6 weeks to complete an internship and it was really difficult. I truly felt for the tribe who didn't have the opportunity to leave. Internet, water, fresh fruits and vegetables were hard to come by but the tribes people were always kind and compassionate. I really respect them.

  • @marcokuhner2445
    @marcokuhner2445 Před 3 lety +22

    I love the blunt honesty about native history. The trail of tears is one of the most brutal atrocities in the history of the US and many people don’t know this

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem +1

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @rmm8712
    @rmm8712 Před 5 lety +513

    This is one of the most unique, heartwarming, and beautiful videos! A true story of triumph even through adverse circumstances

    • @RomanowRomanow1
      @RomanowRomanow1 Před 5 lety +2

      true, Id love to try the food but Poland is a bit far away...

    • @Dominini
      @Dominini Před 5 lety +3

      RomanowRomanow Aleksiej Throw it on your bucket list. Poland is definitely on mines 😊

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety

      bby bok choy your talking about Inuits, why do people keep assuming it’s natives who crossed the land bridge? If you can’t tell the difference between don’t try and teach about Inuits and Natives. Plus First Europeans were the Vikings 500 years before Columbus and they didn’t conquered anything and got fended off by Natives and Inuits...why do people skip over Canada? I am Denesuline and my language is from Athabaskan language family tree similar to Navajo and Apache. Liked I said if you don’t know these things you don’t know shit about North America.

  • @SultryNeoSoul
    @SultryNeoSoul Před 5 lety +285

    Wow I clicked immediately you never see videos on CZcams showcasing Native American culture. I was so curious. Awesome topic!

    • @ourawkfist
      @ourawkfist Před 4 lety

      I didnt see any of the Indian history that spoke about the tribes raiding and killing and raping and taking each other hostage. hmmmm.. Awesome topic.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from??

  • @SplurgeFrugal
    @SplurgeFrugal Před 5 lety +83

    It is so refreshing to see an appreciative portrayal of Native American culture in New Mexico that highlights its rich heritage and cuisine. Thanks for an excellent episode!

  • @Amerindian
    @Amerindian Před 5 lety +1738

    A lot of Mexican food is more or less Native food. Tortillas, Tacos, Burritos, Tamales, Beans, Avocados, among other things are pre-Columbian in origin.

    • @petergeramin7195
      @petergeramin7195 Před 5 lety +45

      @@bl00dhoney yes but Barbacoa is more of a style of cooking the meat

    • @bl00dhoney
      @bl00dhoney Před 5 lety +46

      @@petergeramin7195 they were cooking indigenous food... Chicken and beef aren't indigenous to the Caribbean!

    • @liwyatan6668
      @liwyatan6668 Před 5 lety +107

      Burritos?
      Never call Burritos Mexican food again :P

    • @bl00dhoney
      @bl00dhoney Před 5 lety +44

      @@liwyatan6668 wheat flour tortillas and rice aren't indigenous :'(

    • @grandsome1
      @grandsome1 Před 5 lety +114

      @@bl00dhoney Yeah, and tomatoes aren't native to Italy. But you wouldn't call pizza non-Italian.

  • @gaanii3376
    @gaanii3376 Před 5 lety +315

    Ojibwe guy here- You guys haven't lived till you've had some good native food, I'm serious. Try it if you can

    • @khourierenee865
      @khourierenee865 Před 5 lety +1

      Niigaanii Langdon yes

    • @jester4886
      @jester4886 Před 5 lety +3

      Wild rice! Yum

    • @MariE-bz2eq
      @MariE-bz2eq Před 5 lety +2

      Def want some native food. The only native food I've had is from Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and pretty much Mexican cuisine

    • @IzzySoDope
      @IzzySoDope Před 5 lety

      I'm ojibwe too. Where u from?

    • @gaanii3376
      @gaanii3376 Před 5 lety +3

      @@IzzySoDope Leech Lake reservation originally, currently in North Carolina

  • @maggiechan33
    @maggiechan33 Před 4 lety +250

    As a Chinese-American, I wept during the parts, noting Destruction of Native American Culture + Stealing their Land.
    The Federal Gov't should distribute reparations, to all Native American Tribes.

    • @Ljksn-tf7dk
      @Ljksn-tf7dk Před 4 lety +10

      Native Americans do get reparations. Each month adults get an amount and there us a lesser amount for children, but its lifelong. But this country does belong to them.

    • @maggiechan33
      @maggiechan33 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Ljksn-tf7dk
      Thanx for the info.

    • @hmoobmeeka
      @hmoobmeeka Před 4 lety +20

      @@Ljksn-tf7dk they don't get reparations from the federal government. The money they receive are from casino revenue

    • @gregorsamsa1364
      @gregorsamsa1364 Před 4 lety +1

      Sounds like menopause

    • @maggiechan33
      @maggiechan33 Před 4 lety +10

      @@gregorsamsa1364
      You are "TRULY INTELLIGENT" to write that anyone crying over some of the WORST CRIMES PERPETRATED IN
      THE US, is hormonal.

  • @ryet3768
    @ryet3768 Před 5 lety +55

    Im native american with the Navajo tribe, I was unaware of a lot of these recipes yet some ingredients are familiar. Thanks for sharing your adventure!

    • @17thUnicorn
      @17thUnicorn Před 4 lety

      Warm hugs:)

    • @arthurragan1332
      @arthurragan1332 Před 4 lety

      I'm thinking these aren't so much "traditional recipes", as they are modern cooking with ingredients available to Native Americans

    • @aao7785
      @aao7785 Před 3 lety

      @@arthurragan1332 yea I think actually their traditional food wouldn’t be sellable it’s probably bland so they mixed it up with modern stuff to make it taste better

    • @arthurragan1332
      @arthurragan1332 Před 3 lety

      @@aao7785 yeah no shit

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from??

  • @chunkybanks6276
    @chunkybanks6276 Před 5 lety +69

    i love the appreciation you’ve shown through out the video. with being native not much people know about how we lived, what we ate, and what our ancestors have been through. thank you for going along the journey to show others. and thank you to anyone who’s not native that clicked on the video, who now has appreciation.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @MT-gh1ic
    @MT-gh1ic Před 4 lety +21

    It’s so sad that I’m northern Native American and my ancestry is connected all through north to South America and I now look at all natives and Mexicans as my brothers and sisters cause we are all connected through blood but an invisible line keeps us from connected to each other to share our teachings and learnings. This is how our cultures are lost.
    Thank you for your videos it’s very uplifting

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

    • @Mel_luvv
      @Mel_luvv Před rokem +1

      I’m Native American my family are uto-Aztec and I can trace my Native culture to Mexican culture

  • @manullim
    @manullim Před 5 lety +1573

    It saddens me enormously what happened to the native americans...

    • @beastvader
      @beastvader Před 5 lety +95

      And now the Americans are supporting and funding Israel who is doing the same to the Palestinians...

    • @eggheadusa9900
      @eggheadusa9900 Před 5 lety +37

      Mizan Rashid Not even close to the same thing

    • @eggheadusa9900
      @eggheadusa9900 Před 5 lety +52

      tshav ntuj kaj nrig Why’s that you just lack compassion imagine some country invades and kills all your friends and someone in the future just says screw um

    • @Ishisah
      @Ishisah Před 5 lety +2

      manullim: Get over it.

    • @NPCorangebad
      @NPCorangebad Před 5 lety +24

      What's wrong with multiculturalism?
      #DIVERSITYISOURSTRENGTH

  • @TwighlightAngelRose
    @TwighlightAngelRose Před 5 lety +124

    This is beautiful yet sad. I have a strong Native American blood in me and yet I haven’t learned very much about my own ancestors including food and just how they lived before the collision. So seeing this was a mix feelings of happiness to learn more yet sad to hear more and more sorrow coming to them. Thank you for sharing this with us! ☺️

    • @alisonorx
      @alisonorx Před 5 lety

      Very sorry

    • @elizabethfletcher1487
      @elizabethfletcher1487 Před 4 lety +1

      "Before the collision." Shakespeare would be proud of whomever coined this phrase. Speaks to the heart of it all.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @CaptNaptastic
    @CaptNaptastic Před 4 lety +29

    I really enjoyed how well informed this was and how much respect you had. I'm a full blood from Oklahoma so I know about the Kiowa and Osage foods. My brother wants to have his own chain of food trucks one day so I'm going to show him this video.

    • @richardgrant2948
      @richardgrant2948 Před 2 lety

      Hello Patricia, how are you doing today; how’s everything going over there 👉 I hope your day went well & I hope it was a blessed 😇 day for you Patricia?

    • @TheParadoxGamer1
      @TheParadoxGamer1 Před 2 lety +1

      Kiowa and Osage? Honestly that’s really cool, my family was full blooded Cherokee, but when Oklahoma was being settled by the white colonizer’s they were assimilated as a whole, most of the culture was lost within my family, minus a fry bread my great grandmother made for my mom.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      @@TheParadoxGamer1 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @owliealim745
    @owliealim745 Před 5 lety +340

    "Wherever Europeans trod, death seems to pursue the indigenous people"~ Charles Darwin

    • @nancysmith2389
      @nancysmith2389 Před 5 lety +13

      Actually, they have been conquered and invaded also. The Arabs invaded Europe and took over a lot of their land. History records over 538 battles with the Arabs. That was what happened during the so called Dark Ages. They were also invaded by Huns, Romans , and even Ghengis Khan. It has been the way of the world to have this happen. They took away their culture also.

    • @nancysmith2389
      @nancysmith2389 Před 5 lety +7

      The Arabs are not exactly innocent of such activity. Thousands of Europeans were enslaved and killed by them.

    • @owliealim745
      @owliealim745 Před 5 lety +4

      @@nancysmith2389 hmm! that factual not true but okey

    • @nancysmith2389
      @nancysmith2389 Před 5 lety +9

      @@owliealim745 Hmmm. I guess you don't know the history of Spain and the Moors. But ok.

    • @owliealim745
      @owliealim745 Před 5 lety +4

      Are you kidding?...lady have you studied in an "alternative" university?....spain and the Moore? is this some bad joke? or you actually referring to the inquisition which I'll have to 100% agree with you
      .

  • @mackenzie-deltadurocher
    @mackenzie-deltadurocher Před 5 lety +363

    I invite you to come explore cuisine from Canada's Indigenous peoples :)

    • @mfjose91
      @mfjose91 Před 5 lety +7

      Do tell me more of thus Canadian natives, you speak of?

    • @rosestewart1606
      @rosestewart1606 Před 5 lety +9

      Mhmm the best. Maple AND blueberries...together!!!

    • @purpleghost106
      @purpleghost106 Před 5 lety +24

      Jose, we have many different individual nations of peoples here in Canada that I can't name them all, you'd need to look up lists. Each one has their own cuisine and culture.
      Here's a sampling of cook books centered on indigenous foods
      www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/6-indigenous-cookbooks-to-warm-you-up-1.2799476

    • @purpleghost106
      @purpleghost106 Před 5 lety +20

      If you wanted to research the food of specific places or people's here I'd suggest you start on the west coast on Victoria Island with the Haida peoples edibleroadtrip.com/blog/2013/7/31/keenawiis-kitchen
      www.hakaimagazine.com/news/local-food-as-medicine/
      Then work your way west and inland toward the coast Salish and Squamish nations. Also note there are many Indigenous chef's in Vancouver who have been bringing Indigenous food into our (I live in this area) landscape. Or heck, some of our food trucks now are run by Native and Metis vendors. :) www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-demand-growing-in-canada-for-indigenous-food-eateries/
      Then further inland toward the Cree peoples of Alberta and the plains www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/chefs-enoch-cree-nation-cook-off-1.4191056

      If you continued west then you'll reach the Six Nations.
      www.erudit.org/en/journals/cuizine/2015-v6-n2-cuizine02112/1033506ar/
      www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/indigenous-chef-reconciliation-food-maskwacis-1.4489035
      www.finedininglovers.com/stories/canadian-indigenous-foods/
      If you went northwards then you'd encounter many peoples including the Dené peoples of northern Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba.
      (Struggling to find a modern source, but the people's are still there so their food is still there, it might just not have the recipes written. Cariboo and moose hunting is particularly important in the north www.kayas.ca/lifestyle/food/denefood.html
      Seriously, there's so much variety, some of whom aren't even written down or listed anywhere online. Here's an interactive map with the names of many nations in Canada, and if you google each one you can find out info (including cuisine) cippn-fnpim.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/index-eng.html

    • @sarad6627
      @sarad6627 Před 5 lety +12

      Pemican, berries, roots, greens, corn, squash, beans, wild rice, bannock(that's a Canadian name), fish, shellfish, various animals etc. They made a tortilla-like flatbread out of flour from various plants including corn. Smoked and slow roasted meat (like BBQ) in the ground.

  • @katew1030
    @katew1030 Před 4 lety +11

    This is so important to recognize! Kudos to the Native Americans... our international cuisine would not be the same without their perseverance in foraging, hunting, and preparing meals for their families.

    • @richardgrant2948
      @richardgrant2948 Před 2 lety

      Hello Kate, how are you doing today; how’s everything going over there 👉 I hope everything went well & it was a blessed day for you Kate?

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @jester4886
    @jester4886 Před 5 lety +140

    In Alaska native cuisine is moose head soup, smoked salmon, dry meat(smoked moose or caribou jerky), among other things

    • @jester4886
      @jester4886 Před 5 lety +1

      @@Mypromiselive cool, yeah I heard about moose being in Maine, but they are much smaller than their Alaskan cousins, I'm not sure why but maybe something to do with more diseases down south. Up north the moose don't catch brainworm or anything like it

    • @Amateur_Pianist_472
      @Amateur_Pianist_472 Před 5 lety +4

      Leroy Spires Alaska is cold so the animals are bigger.

    • @sarad6627
      @sarad6627 Před 5 lety +2

      In Southern Ontario, the moose are dying out as a result ticks spreading due to climate change.

  • @MrFishateyokids
    @MrFishateyokids Před 5 lety +45

    Anyone else wants to give Walter a hug? No one else in this video made me more curious about the history

    • @elizabethfletcher1487
      @elizabethfletcher1487 Před 4 lety

      Damn, Suicide, only solves the problems of the dead and leaves a whole lot of new ones for the survivors....

    • @The_Yosh
      @The_Yosh Před 4 lety

      Elizabeth Fletcher true

    • @ronmassaway
      @ronmassaway Před 4 lety

      Aish, why is name that?

    • @conman4444
      @conman4444 Před 4 lety +1

      I'm half native american and I don't know shit about my history since I never grew up on that side of the family so this makes me happy

  • @SM7SM7SM7
    @SM7SM7SM7 Před 4 lety +10

    This makes so much sense! 4yrs ago I visited the Cherokee reservation in NC and wondered “why am I on native land looking at a pizza place, Wendy’s, chinese and Japanese restaurants?” It just didn’t make sense why there wasn’t a Native restaurant.
    So when I got home, I googled Native American cuisine and honestly, the results were terrible, I only got back corn and somethings not interesting and in my heart I knew google was BS.
    Now you finally answered my question 4 yrs later and I am informed but terribly sad! The Natives were wronged in sooo many ways and still are.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @jasminearmour4821
    @jasminearmour4821 Před 5 lety +4

    I am so grateful for this video . I am black , Native American ( Pawnee) and Indian-American . I can honestly say that I learned more in this 20 minute video than I learned in all my years of school in the United States and that says a lot about our school systems . Indigenous food and language is something I didn’t have growing up but I would love to learn more ❤️

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @sayyadina8966
    @sayyadina8966 Před 5 lety +14

    Thank You for including the true history of “america”. Also, I’m so happy to see Native American Cuisine being successful!❤️✨

    • @ms.rstake_1211
      @ms.rstake_1211 Před 5 lety +3

      👍😊

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem +1

      @@ms.rstake_1211 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from??

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem +1

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

    • @ms.rstake_1211
      @ms.rstake_1211 Před rokem

      @@jasonkrodriguez82 hi... Thank you so much... Are you Ameridian/Native American?☺️❣️

  • @darlingdame_x187x
    @darlingdame_x187x Před 7 dny

    Also as an indigenous person, i didn't expect to be so emotionally moved by this, but it brought me to tears. You did right by us. Thank you.

  • @Simplyeverlasting87
    @Simplyeverlasting87 Před 5 lety +113

    This video is basically focused on (U.S Natives) so while I get all the comments saying that Mexicans and other Latin American countries are rich with indigenous cuisine and the culture is alive and well(and our communities are spread out through the U.S and we have opened up restaurants and whatnot which is common), you guys have to remember the indigenous people of what is now the U.S are very different in culture compared to the indigenous cultures of Peru, The Caribbean, Colombia or Brazil etc.. there’s a lot of miles separating Latin American nations from U.S natives so they’re dynamics are very different to ours to how colonialism effected us. Comparing an indigenous person from New Mexico like the one featured in the video to some indigenous culture from Peru is like comparing a Chinese person to someone from the Philippines or Indonesia, they may have similar phenotypes(but that’s found in every region in the world) but they’re not all the same. But if I had to say I think the Latin American country closest to the US natives is probably Mexico (specifically the northern parts since thier culture overlaps with South west natives) and that’s only because of proximity
    Edit: I feel bad for US Natives, they never really preserved a lot of they’re original cultures like Latin Americans did

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +3

      Gianni :X Canada has 635 First Nation Tribes still exist plus mixed Natives with Europeans are their own people and we know them as Métis

    • @terryhoward7292
      @terryhoward7292 Před 5 lety +5

      @ Before the Europeans came there was no Mexico, it was just earth, a land where native people roamed

    • @glimmeringsea5105
      @glimmeringsea5105 Před 5 lety

      On point

    • @KSmithwick1989
      @KSmithwick1989 Před 5 lety +2

      Viv
      There is also Tejano people, who are a mix of Europeans and assimilated Apache. Other than Spanish, there was also Hispanized Irish, Italian, German, and French. That moved into Southern Texas under land grants.
      Note that the Apache lived on both sides of the Rio Grande. And that people moved freely between the border until the 1900s. Also English was hardly spoken by most people living in South Texas until the 1920s.

    • @KingZealotTactics
      @KingZealotTactics Před 5 lety

      Terry Howard, that's actually not true, there was territories just like there is now.

  • @drd6893
    @drd6893 Před 5 lety +356

    We had millions and millions of buffalo, the colonial colonists slaughtered almost all of the buffalo that was a staple to our ancestors diet

    • @jaebee9308
      @jaebee9308 Před 5 lety +13

      Buffalo is widely raised on American land now. Instead of complaining about the past- bring it back yourself. Others have.

    • @elagabalus6948
      @elagabalus6948 Před 5 lety +82

      Jae Bee “hey we slaughtered a species to near extinction in an attempt to genocide you but that species back so :)”
      Glad to know there’s some racist pos still out there

    • @plorin3015
      @plorin3015 Před 5 lety +5

      Venom MokoAutist You’re an idiot...

    • @elagabalus6948
      @elagabalus6948 Před 5 lety +42

      Plorin you’re an idiot

    • @Cruxador
      @Cruxador Před 5 lety +12

      @@jaebee9308 No, cattle are widely raised on American land. Buffalo are raised on a few specialty ranches. This is a problem for the US because cattle congregate at creeks and other water sources and destroy the vegetation there instead of spreading out and grazing evenly as cattle do. Although for the beef raised in feed lots (a majority) it's only a problem for the cattle and for the health of the (human) consumers, this is still a big problem on overgrazed land especially the sensitive semi-arid land, most of which is publicly owned.

  • @alecnotalec4963
    @alecnotalec4963 Před 3 lety +5

    I moved to New Mexico several years ago and I just could not believe the food and culture. It’s such a hidden gem to be discovered.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

    • @azborderlands
      @azborderlands Před 2 měsíci

      I come from an old New Mexican family and feel very blessed. Taking the food for granted my entire life.

  • @mrzalvarez
    @mrzalvarez Před 5 lety +37

    Thank you for your work on this video. This story NEEDS to be told and heard by non natives and natives alike. Thank you again!

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

  • @robinabhuiyan9774
    @robinabhuiyan9774 Před 5 lety +19

    This brought tears to my eyes. Such a heartwarming, beautiful video.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

  • @diy_nailsby_heidi_r3889
    @diy_nailsby_heidi_r3889 Před 4 lety +42

    I'm what is known as a "splitfeather" -- a person of Native ancestry but raised outside of their indigenous people and culture -- with my blood ancestry being 3/4 German and 1/4 Ho-çak or Ho-Chunk (formerly known as Winnebago). I was raised in a 100% German ethnicity home, German was even my first language, despite being born in Wisconsin! I was born to a non-Native, unwed mother and given up for adoption.
    My story is long, so I won't relate any more of those details here, however I wanted to say all that I have for one very special reason:
    It's the Native foodways that have given me back at least the flavor of my ancestry and that have allowed me to have "some" idea of the culture those foodways came from and that have allowed me to have a connection that I never thought I'd have to my ancestry. It's given me strong medicine to heal the roots of my being torn from my people.
    Thank you so very much for doing this show!

  • @ashmfleming
    @ashmfleming Před 5 lety +12

    I am here today because my ancestors assimilated to European ways of life. It’s bittersweet to learn a little about Indigenous foods. Thanks for the vid.

    • @The_Yosh
      @The_Yosh Před 4 lety +1

      You are a true bro

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

  • @JadeDRail
    @JadeDRail Před 5 lety +31

    There was Multicultural week at my college and I tried this amazing strawberry juice, a delicious stew and raw caribou. IT WAS SOOOO GOOD.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @kileysevens9116
    @kileysevens9116 Před 3 lety +9

    "Don't cook when your angry" I'm far from his tribe but thats something my grandparents tell me. And "don't cook when you're sad" because it makes the food taste bad and you may make them sick. So I always cook with love when it's for others. Excited to hear their thoughts and so far out of all my friends... they say my cooking is best lol so I tell them that haha cook with love or in a good mood and it'll come out amazing.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

  • @s1r3n1971
    @s1r3n1971 Před 4 lety +8

    What a roller coaster, started out fun & exciting and all of a sudden I’m disgusted, saddened and depressed on the Trail of Tears, and then I’m happy again eating clay baked fish, but not for long, spiraling down into Navajo despair and then back to the top, whew life is hard💗

  • @Falarson92
    @Falarson92 Před 5 lety +123

    "Native" is really a oversimplification. Each culture is immensely unique and there are thousands upon thousands all across the Americas. I think it's similar to the word "Oriental" in the way it erases the differences between all the peoples. After all, you wouldn't put fish and chips and lasagna in the same bag and call them "European". This goes mostly to the people who say Mexica food is somehow equal to Navajo or any other tribe/nation. However, I also must acknowledge the fact that the true history of these dishes and other kinds of cultural heritage has been ravaged by time and the atrocities commited by european invaders.
    On a side note, lots of paraguayan food hails directly from the guarani people: chipa, mate, cocido, tereré, pajagua mascada! Look up these dishes if you're interested.

    • @alecity4877
      @alecity4877 Před 5 lety +8

      Yes, at least the spaniards tried to preserve it, they made a mess where they tried to stay in power, by leaving the people they conquered with their culture, while at the same time tried to make the settlers confortable getting their lifestyle in the continent, and not letting commit somethings that they saw as crazy. Did a lot of bad, but at least it got preserved not like what happened in lands colonized by other europeans.
      PD: I thought mate was from the charrua!

    • @greyhawksilversmith7312
      @greyhawksilversmith7312 Před 4 lety +3

      Usually we identify different dishes by tribe such as apache, navajo, sioux, Oodham, lakota etc.

    • @FallingStary
      @FallingStary Před 4 lety +1

      Native, Oriental, African, every island culture, et cetera. It would be a gift to understand every nuance to all those who deserve it but unfortunately humans can't. Hopefully everyone can get their time in the limelight and have documentation and representation. So at least if you wanted to know you have the chance to learn about it before the knowledge is lost

    • @enidp1277
      @enidp1277 Před 4 lety +1

      Yeah it's cool to see this bc I've tried native food before and it was delicious but it was from the areas around me which are cree and Algonquin so the food is quite different compared to this

    • @gregorsamsa1364
      @gregorsamsa1364 Před 4 lety +9

      "you wouldn't put fish & chips and lasagna in the same bag and call them 'European'"
      Yes I would

  • @chopshopchopper
    @chopshopchopper Před 4 dny

    I just searched the whole USA and Canada, threw google maps. I looked at ever single Native American restaurant inside that app. I didn't take long at all. We need like 10,000 Native American restaurants like yesterday, and that to start. Great video...

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- Před 5 lety +33

    10:38 This is like how the Japanese have 2 versions of cuisine _washoku_ which is traditional Japanese food and _kaiseki_ which is a fusion of foreign influences with Japanese methods or ingredients.

  • @estrellasanchez3580
    @estrellasanchez3580 Před 4 lety +34

    this looks like mexican cuisine, i’ve grown up eating this.
    fun fact, when the three powers came they took different approaches
    england destroyed natives, while spaniards assimilated them, that’s why native foods are alive as “mexican food”

    • @ivetterodriguez1994
      @ivetterodriguez1994 Před 4 lety +6

      I wouldn't say it's the same. They use similar ingredients but the dishes are unique. And of course, they would use similar ingredients such as corn, beans, squash, tomatoes because these plants are native to the Americas.

    • @puma1304
      @puma1304 Před 3 lety

      totalmente correcto, somos una cultura eminentemente mestiza, mientras los gringos son una cultura eminentemente "transplantada"...

    • @ChrisB-cx6td
      @ChrisB-cx6td Před 3 lety

      After all its New Mexico 😂

    • @ChrisB-cx6td
      @ChrisB-cx6td Před 3 lety

      @@puma1304 sera conquista

    • @lorenab5309
      @lorenab5309 Před 3 lety +1

      It’s similar because Mexicans are native Americans mixed with Europeans , however Mexico has maintained its pre colonization recipes and dishes that you can enjoy today , and we also have Mexican food which is a combination of European ingredients and Native American ingredients .

  • @LESTR97
    @LESTR97 Před 2 lety +2

    This was an excellent video. It's good to see Native American cultures & history being acknowledged in a way that lets them speak for themselves.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

  • @ladiesbane
    @ladiesbane Před 5 lety +19

    Come to the Pacific Northwest! Salmon, salal, venison, clams, nettles, the Salish harvest -- the bounty here is very different from the SW.

    • @niles8102
      @niles8102 Před 5 lety +2

      Mostly berries, nuts, seafood, plant based foods and a LOT of meat :D

  • @Mandy-ns9vu
    @Mandy-ns9vu Před 3 lety +4

    So interesting, the Maori people here in NZ have fry bread too, I never realized most indigenous cultures have their own version because they were displaced and left to work with what they were given. Super fascinating

  • @paytonpryor
    @paytonpryor Před 4 lety +4

    I definitely noticed all the dialysis centers and barely any places to eat on the reservation in the Bad Lands. When I visited Wounded Knee I was brought to tears at what my ancestors did to these people. Breaks my heart.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @carenburmeister5002
    @carenburmeister5002 Před 5 lety +9

    Well done! I’ve always wondered about native cuisine and why it didn’t seem to exit, at least in my world. I’m so heartened by the New Native American food movement. Thanks.

    • @richardgrant2948
      @richardgrant2948 Před 2 lety

      Hello Caren, how are you doing today; how’s everyone over there doing today, hope it was a blessed day for you Caren?

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

  • @dalidemedina2294
    @dalidemedina2294 Před 5 lety +32

    You’ve contradicted yourself. You said you’ve never had native food, then you listed Mexican and Peruvian food as foods you’ve eaten. Those ARE NATIVE FOODS. Most Cuisine from the America’s is native food.

    • @nycbklynrmp
      @nycbklynrmp Před 5 lety +4

      but not norht american. not all mexican food is indigenous since has many influences of spanish.

    • @dalidemedina2294
      @dalidemedina2294 Před 5 lety +4

      nycbklynrmp hence why I commented “most”. And the USA isn’t the only country in North America. Don’t forget Canada, México, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panamá, which are mainland North America. Then you have many more Island nations in the Caribbean that are also part of North America. And yes I know that some of the mainland nations I’ve mentioned some also consider Central America. But the point is, there are a lot of food coming from these nations that people dismiss as not being of native origin, when clearly they are.

  • @LeahGobert
    @LeahGobert Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you for how respectful & informative your video was showcasing our Native/Indigenous culture!! Much appreciation from a Blackfeet/Lummi/Haida/Tlingit/Cree person :D

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from??

  • @cara9648
    @cara9648 Před 4 lety +3

    I was skeptical of how this video was going to play out, but I think you really did well with your research and explaining the history behind it all. Our history always makes me cry. Thanks for bringing this to the world!

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @IVKulik
    @IVKulik Před 3 lety +7

    yall deliver

  • @codyferguson7120
    @codyferguson7120 Před 4 lety +3

    So glad you made this video. I live in Alaska, and in my culture we traditionally either boiled everything or dried and poked food in oil to preserve them for the long winters. It has never been anything amazing. My dad married a Thai woman, and using our cultural foods, she is infusing Thai cuisine into it, and IT IS AMAZING! My favorite food she makes are Deer meat balls with a spicy, sweet, vinegary dip. She also makes salmon curry that is to die for.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @mariatrombley8630
    @mariatrombley8630 Před 5 lety +54

    Thank you for making this video!!!! For sharing our story with the world!! And doing so in such a informative and beautiful way!! Native food is so so so delicious and very nutritious. I’m a plains ndn, my ppl ate and still eat buffalo (bison) it is leaner than beef and I think it’s tastier 🤤 I agree that there should be more native restaurants,so everyone can enjoy this beautiful cuisine!! Thanks again for this video!!

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?’

  • @flymeaway12
    @flymeaway12 Před 5 lety +22

    That BBQ sauce is everything! I love eating at Tocabe when I am in Denver. Please bring one down to the Springs!

  • @Ctasker5
    @Ctasker5 Před 4 lety +3

    How am I just discovering Yara?! What an incredibly talented producer. This was so fun to watch.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @grusha9516
    @grusha9516 Před 4 lety +49

    As a Russian, I came here to learn more about the USA. Other than their wars, colonisation, slavery, ramptant out of control capitalism and anything bad. This was cool.
    Vodka can be made from wheat btw, potatoes are to precious.

    • @lanzibangli1259
      @lanzibangli1259 Před 4 lety

      @Lora "yall" means the russian government?

    • @SomeRandomHobo44
      @SomeRandomHobo44 Před 4 lety +1

      @@lanzibangli1259 so, before we owned Alaska and before it became a state, it was owned by Russia.

  • @susan3200
    @susan3200 Před 4 lety +3

    We loved this video! I even shared it in my paleo recipe group for beginners. Some of the ideas, like the blueberry BBQ sauce, and the honey chili sauce would very much work with our healthy lifestyle. You guys did an amazing job keeping us interested and informed on Native American cuisine. Thanks!

    • @richardgrant2948
      @richardgrant2948 Před 2 lety

      Hello Susan, how are you doing today; how’s everything going over there 👉 I hope your day went well & hope it was a blessed day for you Susan?

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @drakawinkle584
    @drakawinkle584 Před 4 lety +2

    There's a small place in Phoenix Arizona that's run by Navajo people. It's called the Indian Fry Bread House. Their pork green chilli stew is to die for! All of their food is AMAZING!

  • @hellspawn22
    @hellspawn22 Před 5 lety +10

    very educational video. made me curious about the history. i have to look into it more now. awesome! food looked amazing btw

  • @shifaust6872
    @shifaust6872 Před 4 lety +3

    Excellent educational and extremely informative video. Thank you for this inspiring video and the Navajo chef, who allowed us to view the Navajo reservation.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

  • @ninja1676
    @ninja1676 Před 3 lety +1

    I like to see native people being heard and recognized as people who are still here and are not lost to histories.
    Seeing their food is a nice example to see their way of life and what's in it.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?’

  • @elledix3575
    @elledix3575 Před 5 lety +136

    Tip: NEVER give cooked bones of any type to animals!! Animals are supposed to eat raw bones which don't splinter when chewed. Cats, dogs, etc. run the risk of internal injury and severe pain if cooked bone shards get stuck in gums, throat, etc. I ignored this and paid the price of a hefty vet bill when one cat got fish bones stuck in her throat. The vet said I was lucky it didn't go further down as they would have had to operate. Obviously in most cases noone is there to care for feral animals if this happens so they might die.

    • @janegarner9169
      @janegarner9169 Před 5 lety +7

      Elle Dix This rule doesn’t apply to cooked bones of all animals. It’s potentially deadly for cats & dogs to eat cooked poultry bones, because the cooked bones can easily splinter once ingested. Poultry bones when cooked become softened but also easily break & splinter, which can puncture the intestinal system of dogs & cats. This can easily kill the animal, even if you take the animal to a vet as soon as the animal shows signs of problems.
      Presumably this is also true of other mammals who eat cooked poultry...foxes, raccoons, & other non-domesticated animals who sometimes raid human garbage, as well as animals who people try to help by leaving their leftover food for them.
      When I was a child in the ‘50s, we had a lot of dogs: several deer hounds, a family dog my parents had rescued as a starving puppy, other dogs we took in after they got dumped (often hunting hounds too old to keep working), dogs we rescued from abusive families, etc. Mainly the dogs ate what we ate...southern Indian foods like beans, corn, cornbread, squash, etc, as well as some meat (we didn’t eat much meat). But wenever gave the chicken or turkey unless we’d removed the bones. But somehow our deer hound got hold of cooked chicken with bones intact. My father rushed him to the nearest vet, half an hour away, but it was too late. A chicken bone had splintered & had punctured his intestines.
      With regard to cooked fish, the dangers are obvious: cooked fish bones can harm humans, which is why you have to be careful to remove the bones as you eat them.
      Unfortunately, it seems that many people refuse to believe cooked poultry bones are dangerous to dogs & cats, I supppse because they’ve fed their dogs & cats poultry with bones intact for so long, and for generations. Yeah, dogs usually love chewing on them, but even if you’ve fed them to your dog for years without noticeable problems, all it takes is one time. It’s like Russian roulette.

    • @elledix3575
      @elledix3575 Před 4 lety +1

      @H S if I've understood correctly raw bones are to a certain extent pliable whereas cooked bones not. Think of the wishbone in a chicken ; once cooked people play a game of snapping them n making a wish. Just try it with a raw wishbone! It bends but doesn't snap n splinter!! So it's more probable an animal can handle a raw bone. After all isn't it more natural? Animals don't cook their own food, we do!

    • @greyhawksilversmith7312
      @greyhawksilversmith7312 Před 4 lety

      you mean "NO POULTRY" especially turkey.

    • @elledix3575
      @elledix3575 Před 4 lety +1

      As I understood it applies to all animal bones especially poultry and fish. Am checking RSPCA website and it says no cooked bones full stop! Does not specify certain cooked bones being Ok. I certainly don't think it's worth the risk!!

  • @phillykiki7320
    @phillykiki7320 Před 4 lety +4

    Super emotional when Chef played the hand drum.

  • @caitlinallen8400
    @caitlinallen8400 Před 3 lety +1

    Every time I watch or read about Native American history, it grieves me to my core what was done to those poor people by the Europeans 😢 I truly hope that nowadays more Native American culture can be encouraged and flourish and become more mainstream! I would totally support Native cuisine in my area! 😋 Loved this video

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from??

  • @bryantnavajo3738
    @bryantnavajo3738 Před 3 lety +3

    Thank you so much for being so respectful and educational. I’m glad I watched this there is such a lack of any kind of acknowledgment of native people.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem +1

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

    • @bryantnavajo3738
      @bryantnavajo3738 Před rokem +1

      @@jasonkrodriguez82 utah

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      @@bryantnavajo3738 Good. So how is the weather over there with you?

    • @bryantnavajo3738
      @bryantnavajo3738 Před rokem +1

      @@jasonkrodriguez82 snowy and cold

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      @@bryantnavajo3738 I mean how is the situation of things over there regards to the economic standard and security?

  • @YangaLytBear47
    @YangaLytBear47 Před 4 lety +7

    His singing made my tear up
    Feel like my ancestors put they hand on me

  • @EBThisThat
    @EBThisThat Před 7 měsíci

    This absolutely fascinated me. I am a food connoisseur and love trying new things as well as learning about cultures I might not have been introduced to when I was young. I had no idea Native people were lactose intolerant but with their diet, it totally makes sense ! I appreciate everything in this essay, it was totally fascinating and makes me want to visit a Rez or native restaurant that much more, and I do so with the utmost respect and humility, too !

  • @uneh
    @uneh Před 5 lety +118

    This is my first time hearing about what happened. I'm disgusted.

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +22

      uneh that’s because Americans rather talk about slavery instead of indigenous people...

    • @TWKHMERCHIC
      @TWKHMERCHIC Před 5 lety +18

      @@dn2ze no, its the same with slavery, there is ALOT of stuff people don't know about slavery... its pretty much washed out..just think less natives to speak their truth , there were LOTS of africans brought here to the point that it was well known what was going on...the mass in numbers. The US did the same thing to chinese and japanese and italians....it really is sad and disheartening..

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +6

      BlackBodianGal I am full blooded Denesuline of Canada, from treaty 8 which were sign in 1899 and still stands today and upheld but first treaty were sign in 1771 again still standing and upheld today. Now tell me how many Treaties did Americans honoured and upheld like what Canada did for indigenous people?!?

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +1

      BlackBodianGal 635 First Nations Tribes in Canada and that’s not including Inuits aka Eskimo and Métis aka Mixed Natives. Now tell me how many of our indigenous cousins in America still exist?

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +2

      BlackBodianGal my dene language is part of Athabaskan language family tree similar to Navajo and Apache of America. This shows and proves that both Canada and America was one big land before whites and blacks set foot in North America, plus the first Europeans Northern Natives met were the Vikings 500 years before Columbus.

  • @relmcmillan
    @relmcmillan Před 5 lety +261

    Mexicans are Americans... Just sayin. We forget that. Even if you meant North Americans Canadian indigenous are Americans to. Also, if I can support such restuarants I will! We have a strong Native presence in Spokane and I will fight to keep it, preserve it and increase it. As a mixed woman of color with presumed native heritage, it doesn't matter because oppression like the histories informed here are like my African erased ancestry culture. I dont even know where my family comes from and I have a degree in Afro history. Colonialism was so violently penetrative and purposeful, it hurts still today. I wish to see more indigenous chefs!!!

    • @tryingtobebetter7235
      @tryingtobebetter7235 Před 5 lety +22

      Mexico is in North America.

    • @petergeramin7195
      @petergeramin7195 Před 5 lety +4

      Take a DNA test

    • @meginna8354
      @meginna8354 Před 5 lety +1

      Colonialism wasn't violent, African and Native colonialism was violent and full of genocide but European colonialism was a blessing, the king of Hawaii begged the British Empire to make Hawaii a British subject, that's not a joke that's because European colonialism was a blessing and no real drawbacks.

    • @tryingtobebetter7235
      @tryingtobebetter7235 Před 5 lety +62

      @@meginna8354 No one believes these lies. All colonialism is exploitation.

    • @tryingtobebetter7235
      @tryingtobebetter7235 Před 5 lety +5

      @lobsterbale Legesse A lot of people say things like that when we know that there is no evidence supporting that conclusion.

  • @Philosophicalpaperti
    @Philosophicalpaperti Před 4 lety +1

    Come for the food, stay for the history. Thank you for this.

  • @Justagorl
    @Justagorl Před 4 lety +8

    Love this! Looks devine. Should try the same for native Australia, we had a version of the walk of years but it's the line of death, British walked in a line from east to west Aus and shot to kill, every native they saw, men, women and children. The foods that are survived are incredible but a rare find.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @SpiralingDown99
    @SpiralingDown99 Před 4 lety +12

    This is a very well-made, informative video. I've always been curious about Native American cuisine so thank you! I'm hoping I can visit Santa Fe after all this is over :D

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

  • @MAG320
    @MAG320 Před 2 lety +1

    Cherokee here. Thanks for recognizing Native History. We just want our land back .thats literally it.

  • @samuraijack4462
    @samuraijack4462 Před 5 lety +52

    Long life Native American

  • @JennySnowy
    @JennySnowy Před 4 lety +3

    Salmon stew, salmon berry desserts are some stuff I like as a Alaska Native too. I highly suggest Native desserts, native fruits plus our spices makes for some delicious sweets.

  • @videondn171
    @videondn171 Před 18 dny

    So refreshing to see something other than indian tacos presented as native american food. I am 56 years old, Cheyenne-Arapaho and have been all over Indian Country and have never even heard of a Native American restaurant, not even a page out of a menu dedicated to authentic Native American food.

  • @Martin_Tyto
    @Martin_Tyto Před 5 lety +54

    Just had this conversation with my parents!! This year for the holidays we were thinking about making a Pozole with quail and maybe rabbit as side. We're Mexican of half native decent and the rest is European and African so a lot of our regional foods are influenced by that and we starting talking about how most Americans don't taste regional foods native to the Americas but they call what they eat at chains like Taco Bell Mexican.
    Like when I lived in central PA a Mexican restaurant close by had ground beef tacos on a flour tortilla with beans and rice and it was owned by people of Belgian heritage. And even if latinos worked in the kitchens they would tell me that this is how the locals preferred it and the owners would not rather risk selling more authentic dishes.

    • @boffan1988
      @boffan1988 Před 5 lety +1

      I love Mexican food for how indigenous it is. :)

    • @joeyholden2748
      @joeyholden2748 Před 5 lety +1

      Here in LA, all Americans know what real Mexican food is. White ppl stop at the taco trucks and order their specials of the day which tend to be pozole or menudo.

    • @loveforeva12
      @loveforeva12 Před 5 lety +1

      I live in central PA and I doubt there’ll ever be any real native food restaurants... would be nice tho

    • @ALYoungFuture13
      @ALYoungFuture13 Před 2 lety

      @Ocēlōtl es more Moorish, then African

  • @Gigisus45Cookie666
    @Gigisus45Cookie666 Před 5 lety +114

    Russians had Vodka before the potatoes were introduced to the continent. It was originally grain based. The oldest record of Vodka dates from 1405 but it is believe to be much older than that.

    • @mikec8679
      @mikec8679 Před 5 lety +9

      most vodka today is made from grains. Next the guy is going to find a flat rectangular rock with rounded edges and finger painting on it and say they invented the smartphone.

    • @rummugtheorc1675
      @rummugtheorc1675 Před 5 lety +1

      Mike C lol that’s funny as shit!!!!

    • @shawntaestepter6510
      @shawntaestepter6510 Před 5 lety +11

      Vodka pre dates back to Egypt not Russia. It was called fire water and used as a key ingredient in making gun powder. I know this for a fact to be true bcuz I did my presentation in culinary arts on Vodka.

    • @JuanJohn013
      @JuanJohn013 Před 5 lety

      Native of the American
      It's super old more then 1000 year old

    • @zoebenefer6149
      @zoebenefer6149 Před 5 lety +4

      Shawntae Stepter shame that gun powder was invented by the Chinese and not the ancient Egyptians

  • @Theaterkid4L9733
    @Theaterkid4L9733 Před 3 lety +1

    I can't believe I lived close to Denver and never knew about Tocabe?!!
    When I look at the histories of indigenous peoples around the globe, it's really amazing anything is left of their cultures. I have so much respect for those who are making the effort to celebrate and preserve them (and inform the ignorant such as myself).

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

  • @ChewK000
    @ChewK000 Před 5 lety +157

    Gordon Ramsay should go there, he would be amazed by the food there.

    • @MrCool-qi7cy
      @MrCool-qi7cy Před 4 lety +5

      Gordon Ramsey is a Racist.

    • @thewakabaccapodcast1378
      @thewakabaccapodcast1378 Před 4 lety +10

      Mr. Cool no he’s not

    • @nalinbeckman1272
      @nalinbeckman1272 Před 4 lety +23

      I watch Gordon sometimes, not gonna lie. Buuuut there's a 99.9% chance he would undermine the roots of traditional cuisine in his crusade to "elevate" the foods of yet another culture that he knows little to nothing about so I'd rather he left our food alone

    • @dannychane
      @dannychane Před 4 lety +2

      He will probably claim he could make it better, but will fail just like his Carbonara 😂

    • @nalinbeckman1272
      @nalinbeckman1272 Před 4 lety +6

      @the magic chanch shell I have no problem with innovation and changing things, but he most certainly does undermine and underrepresent the cultures he recreates food from. just as there is a difference between undermining and reimagining there is a difference between misappropriating and innovating. I am black, blackfoot, choctaw, Scottish and Pakistani. I blend all of those cultures in my every life, my food, everything. The difference between myself and Gordon ramsay is that I do everything in my power to fully understand and give adequate respect and recognition to the origins of traditional and recognize the ways in which I adapt cultures to my circumstances. Gordon ramsay on the other hand would prefer to be on television telling people that he can make their millenia old traditions more "amazing". Also he has resorted to using derogatory language like the N-word when he thinks no one is listening. Recipes change every day just like cultures but there is a necessary element of respect. I wouldnt allow a surgeon to perform an operation on me if he didn't know my medical history, and I hold just as high of a standard for a culinary expert. I never said anything to suggest I was against innovation, I just said that he does it wrong.

  • @Rivenmoxie
    @Rivenmoxie Před 5 lety +29

    I’m a native Canadian this video caught me by surprise :) it’s a good video :) and we don’t see many native cuisine around because the native culture is dying even within each bloodline..
    It may have been 1840 when this happened in America.... it’s still a new battle for Canada.... Canada’s gov tries to make up for it a little but it seems more like a cover up then a true apology for stealing the land.
    it was only my grandmothers era
    whom were forcefully taken from their loving native homes and pushed into residential Christian schools where they were often beat when even accidentally let their native language slip...
    Native children and families are still judged. And if you often have any native in you and look white also your native just hides within the white....

    • @brysonflettmc
      @brysonflettmc Před 4 lety +5

      My kookum got her braids cut too brother. Stay strong my man our grandchild and theirs after need us now more than ever.

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from??

  • @xandlidradevilsuke
    @xandlidradevilsuke Před 4 lety

    Kiowa tribe here, I am so amazed to have such a beautiful intelligent kiowa woman out there sharing our history and knowledge. Ah ho!

  • @Sleipnirseight
    @Sleipnirseight Před 4 lety +40

    This also makes me really curious what European and Asian cuisines looked like prior to invasion of the Americas.

    • @sunnirae1900
      @sunnirae1900 Před 4 lety +20

      Their lasagna was just squares of flour and water rolled out into a thin sheet, layered with cheese and weird spices. I'm not kidding.

    • @autumnhomestead
      @autumnhomestead Před 4 lety +4

      @@sunnirae1900 Tasting History fan? 😀

    • @dhfjgkkdrgsg
      @dhfjgkkdrgsg Před 2 lety +1

      i live in germany and the only american thing in europe i know about is Coca cola. but i asume you meant things like hamburger, pizza, fries and this stuff but that are all things that came from here but americans brought it back in form of mc donalds, burger king , subway , pizza hut and kfc. but BK and MC Donalds are the real only 2 things you cand find in every city over 20k citizens because most of us visit fast food restaurants maybe 5 times a year. most people i konw never visited a sub ,kfc or a hut in their lives. to answer your question just imagine the most sterotype of meals for a european country thats still what we eat ^^

    • @Sleipnirseight
      @Sleipnirseight Před 2 lety +1

      @@dhfjgkkdrgsg No, I'm referring to cuisines before many iconic spices and foods, like tomatoes were brought from the Americas to Europe and Asia. It's hard to picture Italian cuisine without tomatoes!
      Edit: clarification

    • @AmandaFromWisconsin
      @AmandaFromWisconsin Před rokem +2

      Lots of butter and cheese, probably, but those things are awesome.

  • @whatever6796
    @whatever6796 Před 5 lety +38

    unfortunate the comments only acknowledge mexican food as native food when native american is a term for indigenous people of the americas which is much more than the continental united states and mexico. you will find native cuisine throughout the rest of latin america and the carribean which deserve recognition too.

    • @boffan1988
      @boffan1988 Před 5 lety +6

      I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that Mexican cuisine is one in which the Native roots are particularly out front. But yes you are right, all Latin American and Caribbean cuisine has Native roots to some degree. Hell, even North American food does actually. Cornbread, barbecue, succotash, pumpkin pie- all U.S. dishes with Native roots.

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety

      Danny like Canada doesn’t have Natives, I swear how come people never mentions, us in the North. Shit, our ancestors first met the Europeans 500 years before Columbus and they didn’t conquered anything....

  • @mosijahi3096
    @mosijahi3096 Před 3 lety +1

    Really enjoy your story telling. Very unique way and your personality really brings out the shine !

  • @E_Stew
    @E_Stew Před 4 lety +36

    Food will always be there...I can relate to that, we all need to eat to live...But, the truth behind history can be hidden, misconstrued, and manipulated by the oppressor...Unless...it's told by the people who have been oppressed.
    I know very little about the history of Native Indians except what I was taught from "American" history books, and I was born and have lived in America all of my life as a black man. This one video taught me more than any public school ever has...And that's a damn shame.
    Take the struggles of the Native Indians and the struggles of Black people in America and combine the two together, and what you come up with is a history of evil inflicted upon those two groups that is so sick and sad, it's almost mind-numbing. Take a long and careful look at the history of how America came to be while the oppressor, still to this day, walks around with a "care-free" manner as if they are "Divine".
    This MUST change!!

    • @joeypotter6051
      @joeypotter6051 Před 4 lety +3

      I learned a lot from "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" and am now reading the more recent publication "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee" - the first book tells the stories of what happened to each Native tribe during colonisation, and the second tells the stories of Native tribes today. Really interesting! I live on the other side of the world but have always wanted to know more and hear more Native American stories and culture. If I ever make it back to the US I'm definitely heading to NM and CO and looking up some Native restaurants!

    • @prettybrowneyez3338
      @prettybrowneyez3338 Před 4 lety +3

      I agree with your post. Words can't describe what evils have been done to all races but ESPECIALLY heinous is what's been done to the Native Americans and African Americans. While writing the Constitution, African Americans were still not considered equal in the "Land of the free"... We cannot keep calling the USA that unless ALL people are actually acknowledged and really free. Incredible what one race has done to people just because of the color of their skin. They need to tell it like it is: Not because we're different - everyone IS different, it's because of the color of our skin that frightens the white man... Why?? Only they know... I think Tucker explains it thoroughly in his racist rants daily.... The real history of our peoples MUST be acknowledged and stated in our history books, first and foremost. Then an official apology. The Native Americans need to have the same necessities we all have: clean running water, effective energy, the ability to plant their own crops and farm animals.... And African Americans need their REAL freedom. ASAP.

    • @lalialove
      @lalialove Před 3 lety +1

      I’m not american so I’m kind of ignorant to your history, but I want to ask, what do you think the solution is, what should be changed? And do you think indigenous and african american are still oppressed till this day? Sorry if I sound too ignorant, but I’m definitely interested in learning more about your history soon. Have a nice day!

    • @E_Stew
      @E_Stew Před 3 lety

      @@lalialove
      The solution is to educate people about the truth. The truth of the history of human beings, where they came from and how they evolved over time. Unlearning what we've been taught, the misconceptions that we've been, and are, being fed through the media. Take each opportunity whenever possible to restore hope to those who are being misguided and are filled with hate.
      Oppression is VERY real in America towards many races that are non-white...It's sometimes subtle though many times blatant.

  • @jeffhappens1
    @jeffhappens1 Před 5 lety +107

    “I grew up in a restaurant”
    *drops rib*
    3:20

    • @boffan1988
      @boffan1988 Před 5 lety +1

      I know, right? I was like, "party foul!". lol

    • @SultryNeoSoul
      @SultryNeoSoul Před 5 lety +1

      😂😂😂😭😭😭

    • @theshanamaster
      @theshanamaster Před 5 lety

      HEY! that's us native americans for ya, we say one thing but humble ourselfs the next!

  • @Nishkween
    @Nishkween Před 4 lety +2

    Love this! Thank you for doing this and also adding the true history of colonization along with how our people have adapted and continue to adapt in the modern age.

  • @CarnivoreChristina
    @CarnivoreChristina Před 5 lety +5

    I have been searching for "traditional native foods" and cannot find much online. Thank you for this❤ I want to learn my heritage and would love to have some of these recipes to introduce to my family. My long term goal is to open a restaurant with these traditional foods.

    • @richardgrant2948
      @richardgrant2948 Před 2 lety

      Hello Christina, how are you doing today; how’s everything going over there 👉 I hope it was a blessed day for you Christina?

    • @jasonkrodriguez82
      @jasonkrodriguez82 Před rokem

      I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!