Sioux Chef’s Owamni Restaurant Opens
By Brad Hagen I’m walking down the path alongside West River Parkway, a trail I’ve taken dozens of times. I walk under the third avenue bridge, admiring the much needed construction that will continue into the Fall, and under the Hennepin Avenue bridge, it’s thick concrete and green steel girders looking like they belong in […]
Native Food Perspectives: A different kind of ‘soul food’
By Lee Egerstrom Back a few years, when Christina Valtierra was cooking meals at the Little Earth neighborhood in Minneapolis, some residents would see her in the kitchen and go, “Oh, no. Healthy food again.” As time went on these same reluctant consumers would see her, break into a smile, and comment on how glad […]
At Native food tasting, indigenous community reclaim who they are
By Jiwon Choi/MPR Mysti Babineau, a Red Lake Ojibwe tribal member, along with her two young children and 12-year-old niece, waited in line for an hour on October 8th for the opportunity to get back to their roots. They were among the hundreds of people, mostly Native American, who came to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day […]