How Native Cuisine Fits Into the Berkeley Food Scene | KCET
How Native Cuisine Fits Into the Berkeley Food Scene
Louis Trevino and Vincent Medina are bringing traditional Ohlone food practices to Berkeley with a menu that represents the region's Indigenous culture. Cafe Ohlone by mak-'amham offers contemporary, local, decolonized cuisine just minutes away from one of the catalysts of the modern farm-to-table movement, Chez Panisse.
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S1 E1: Protecting The Coast with the Tolowa Dee-ni'
This episode journeys to the Smith River near the Oregon border to discover how the Tolowa Dee-ni’ are reviving traditional harvesting of shellfish while working with state agencies to monitor toxicity levels.
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S1 E2: Decolonizing Cuisine with Mak–‘amham
This episode explores how two Ohlone chefs Louis Trevino and Vincent Medina are revitalizing Ohlone language, food practices and adapting them for a modernist palate.
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S1 E3: Tribal Hunting with the Pit River Peoples
This episode explores how members of the Pit River Tribe in Northeast California are reviving traditional hunting practices and embracing Community Science initiatives to preserve and monitor wild elk and deer populations.
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S1 E4: Healing The Body with United Indian Health Services
Native peoples in rural areas have started several food sovereignty programs across California. The most prominent of these is United Indian Health Services’ Potawot Community Garden.
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The Potawot Health Village at United Indian Health Services serves as a comprehensive place of healing with Western doctors, a Native medicine man, a sweat lodge and a community garden.
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Man has made it more difficult for baby antelope to cross their natural path, according to Ray Alvarez of the Hewisdawi Band.
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The Pit River tribes are using citizen science and traditional management to monitor juniper, antelope and other wildlife to bring it back to balance.
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Representing their culture with slow, seasonal food and ancestral recipes makes it inarguable that Indigenous Ohlone presence remains in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The land now known as Ku’wah-dah-wilth Restoration Area is a place of wellness, of healing, of cultural resiliency and it’s a wellspring of Indigenous food sovereignty.
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Alarmed over the decline of a traditional food source, the Pit River Tribe acts to restore grasslands and traditional hunting practices.
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The founders of mak’amham and Café Ohlone in the Bay Area want to bring back Indigenous ways and honor the ancestors who preserved traditions in the face of colonization.
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The Tolowa Dee-ni’ people, who have fished and tended the Northwestern California coast for time immemorial, are collaborating with western scientists at state agencies to monitor ocean toxicity in shellfish.
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Tribal rights have hardly been addressed in marine environments but the the work of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation and the North Coast tribes creates a critical space of dialogue about the health of the ocean, which impacts our collective well-being.
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Across the world, Indigenous peoples have lived in their ancestral homelands for thousands of years. To have their perspective and their traditional knowledge is key when confronting contemporary environmental challenges.
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