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.
Full Episodes
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Tending Nature
Tending Nature
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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Tending Nature
Tending Nature
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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Tending Nature
Tending Nature
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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Tending Nature
Tending Nature
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.
Clips & Segments
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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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Healing The Body with United Indian Health Services
While “Food Deserts” is a term used by many to describe urban areas without access to fresh food, this issue is not just one that inner city areas are struggling with. Native peoples in rural areas often lack easy access to healthy, affordable food and a younger generation is witnessing the effects of health issues in their community. As a result, they have started several food sovereignty programs across California. The most prominent of these is in Arcata, CA at UIHS’ Potawot Community Garden which is serving as an inspiration for other initiatives across California.
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2019-02-20T12:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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2019-02-21T12:00:00-08:00KCETLINK
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2019-02-22T23:30:00-08:00KCETLINK
Protecting The Coast with the Tolowa Dee-ni'
Today many California coastal ecosystems are under threat from human caused toxification of our oceans caused by industrial and residential development. This episode journeys to the Smith River near the Oregon border to discover how the Tolowa Dee-ni’ are reviving traditional harvesting of shellfish such as mussels, and in the process, working with state agencies to monitor toxicity levels and redefine the human role in managing marine protected areas.
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2019-02-27T12:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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2019-02-28T12:00:00-08:00KCETLINK
Decolonizing Cuisine with Mak–‘amham
The entire American populace is “food-washed”, we are eating mass produced products that are often pumped full of harmful chemicals or are genetically modified. Even “organic” certification is being revised and caught in fraud to include non-organic processes. 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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2019-03-06T12:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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2019-03-07T12:00:00-08:00KCETLINK
Tribal Hunting with the Pit River Peoples
The industrialized production of meat products has created numerous health issues: it has separated us from the animals it comes from, it is often inhumanely grown, and it is often filled with chemical additives. This episode explores how members of the Pit River Tribe in Northeast California are reviving traditional hunting practices, embracing Community Science initiatives to preserve and monitor wild elk and deer populations; as well as developing statewide intertribal trading networks for the distribution of humanely sourced and sustainable Native foods.
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2019-03-14T13:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
Articles
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Tending Nature
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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Tending Nature
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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