Toastie

Toastie, 4 days ago

@redcrew This should be very concerning to people.

(On the other hand, how good is this quote: “'It’s a dying media,' said Heythaler, in his medieval tunic.")

Toastie, 4 days ago

Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk), author of the cookbook Chími Nu’am, says Native foods have a stigma---unless of course they’re on the menu at a #BayArea Michelin-starred French restaurant.

“They have rabbit, and quail, and deer meat, and our mushrooms, and our fish, and our shellfish, and all of that, that they are serving as the height of what you could eat as a human being. But they’re unavailable to the people who originally cultivated these foods into existence,” Olson says.

Toastie, 4 days ago

Alexa Numkena-Anderson (Hopi, Cree, Yakama, and Skokomish), a chef who’s trained in French cooking techniques and recently opened the pop-up #Indigenous restaurant Javelina in #Portland, said public ignorance of Indigenous foods affects her financial model.

“People are willing to pay exorbitant prices for French food,” she said, “but people know nothing about Indigenous foods. So they will gripe about the prices that I have, even if they are reasonable.”

Toastie, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

But sharing #Indigenous foods with the non-Native public can be hazardous. For one thing, there's the risk that non-Natives will commercialize, overharvest, "wildcraft" and "forage" the foods to death.

There are health hazards, too. Camas, for instance, is easily mistaken for ☠️ death camas 💀 and guess what happens when you eat death camas?

Toastie, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

That's why Briece Edwards, manager of the historic preservation office at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, says learning about #Indigenous first foods requires responsibility and relationships.

Caring for camas means caring for a whole ecosystem, including the deer and elk that paw the ground to loosen the bulbs, the white oaks that shade camas patches and attract deer with their acorns, and of course the camas flowers themselves, which benefit from Native gathering techniques.

Toastie, 4 days ago

Camas is an edible bulb that Kalapuyan people roast in an earthen oven for two to three days.

This dissolves the plant's indigestible inulin into digestible sugars, and as the bulb carmalizes, it takes on the sweetness and texture of a fig.

But “Camas isn’t just camas,” says Edwards. It represents the whole white oak savannah ecosystem, a Native #Oregon landscape settlers nearly destroyed.

Camas used to be so prevalent, settlers mistook distant wildflower patches for lakes.

Toastie, 4 days ago

ANYWAY, this story about Oregon's third Camas Festival was very fun to report. 🗒️ And it was equally fun to illustrate. 🎨 Hope u like it! 😊

#Oregon #Indigenous #Bloomscrolling #FoodSovereignty #PNW

https://www.hcn.org/articles/a-wildflower-is-teaching-the-non-native-public-about-food-sovereignty/

Toastie, 4 days ago

@scott Thanks for reading!

Toastie, 6 days ago

@DorotheaLange

Toastie, 6 days ago

@gooba42 Maybe they think that if we believe it hard enough it'll come true (or at least that we'll stop resisting. STOP RESISTING!!)

Toastie, 6 days ago

@sarae KUMBAYA GUYS we made it.

Toastie, 6 days ago

OMG.

"The United States recognizes the SIGNIFICANCE of the Declaration’s provisions on free, prior and informed consent, which the United States understands to call for a process of meaningful
CONSULTATION with tribal leaders, but not necessarily the AGREEMENT of those leaders, before the
actions addressed in those consultations are taken." [emphasis added]

So in the U.S. consent = consultation but not agreement?

LOVE THAT COLONIZER DOUBLESPEAK. 🙃 💀

https://www.achp.gov/sites/default/files/whitepapers/2018-09/AnnouncementofUSSupportfortheUNDRIP.pdf

Toastie, 6 days ago

Imagine a guy telling this to his date.

Listen, I understand the SIGNIFICANCE of people SAYING we should all RECOGNIZE consent. And because I'm an ally, I understand consent to mean CONSULTATION BUT NOT AGREEMENT. Now, let's consult about the action I'm about to take.

Toastie, 6 days ago

Never forget:

When the UN introduced its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Ppl (UNDRIP) in 2007, which included the right to consent to development on their lands and resources, 144 countries voted YES.

Only four countries (all white colonizer countries), including the US, voted no.

More recently, the US has said they now ✨ embrace ✨ UNDRIP, but it's not legally enforceable & there's no US law protecting or even acknowledging the #Indigenous right to consent.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/indigenous-peoples/un-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples

Toastie, 6 days ago

Imagine a foreign power said they were gonna bulldoze Gettysburg or Arlington Nat'l Cemetary to extract minerals for their economy back home. Told, not asked.

Say the US objected, and the foreign power invited the US to fill out a complaint form explaining why these are traditionally considered "sacred" lands to the local people.

Then the foreign power bulldozed them anyway, offering Americans bulldozing jobs as "mitigation."

This is what the US does to #Indigeous people. TODAY. Every day.

Toastie, 6 days ago

@paninid Yes. This. ☝️

Also, the ceded lands were acquired fraudulently, or under duress or threat of violence, or all of these.

Toastie, 6 days ago

@RiaResists The entire international community and most of America is like "sure, Jan."

Toastie, 6 days ago

@DivineKestrel @Lachesis It's like they took marketing lessons from shitty American corporations OH WAIT.

Toastie, 5 days ago

@MaggyWells Which part are you saying is bullshit?

The Biden Administration has made strides in some ways, but has also been aggressively green-colonial.

Toastie, 5 days ago

@MaggyWells (Also just FYI the quote and link in the OP were from the Obama adminstration)

Toastie, 5 days ago

@vandenberglegs 💯