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Chef Gustavo explains that he regularly shops at La Única Supermarket to get produce for his restaurant, Oro by Nixta on Thursday in Minneapolis. (Sophia Marschall, MPR News)
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Steeped in Indigenous foodways, community and corn are key ingredients

By MPR News
Elders attend a healthy cooking class led by Anthony Warrior on the Santee Dakota reservation. (Photo by Tim Trudell for the Flatwater Free Press)
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A chef transformed his life by eating an Indigenous diet

By Flatwater Free Press
Javelina chef and owner Alexa Numkena-Anderson is a Hopi citizen and a descendant of the Yakama, Cree and Skokomish nations. For the past year, she and her team have brought Indigenous culture and cuisine to nearly two dozen pop up events around Portland. (Photo by Jarrette Werk Underscore / Report for America)
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Javelina: bringing Indigenous cuisine to Portland

By Nika Bartoo-Smith
Northwest Bureau
Chef Sherry Pocknett prepares a dish of duck hash
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The Weekly: Native American Heritage Month Indigenous Food Special

By ICT
Acclaimed chef Anthony Warrior works with a student at the Cultural Connections summer youth camp at the Neihardt Center in Bancroft, Nebraska, in June 2023, working to educate young people and promote the importance of Native foods. Warrior, or Ma-te-yi-ma-pe-to, is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is also Absentee Shawnee of Oklahoma and Sicangu Lakota; he is owner of Warrior’s Palate Catering and Consultation. (Photo by Aryn Halsey, courtesy of Cultural Connections)
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Chef Anthony Warrior: Reconnecting with tradition

By Dan Ninham
Chef Sherry Pocknett, Mashpee Wampanoag, was honored at the James Beard Foundation’s annual awards ceremony in Chicago on June 5, 2023, as Best Chef Northeast. Pocknett's Sly Fox Den Too restaurant and catering operate in Charlestown, Rhode Island, and she has plans to open a waterfront restaurant in Preston, Connecticut, in 2024. (Photo by Huge Galdones via We are the Seeds of Culture Trust)
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Indigenous chef wins James Beard award

By Sandra Hale Schulman
Home chef Maria Givens, Coeur d’Alene, will be taking her Native recipes to a national audience on the PBS show, "The Great American Recipe." Givens is one of nine chefs on Season 2 of the popular PBS show, which premieres on Monday, June 19, 2023, and runs through Aug. 7, 2023. (Photo courtesy of PBS)
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Chef takes Indigenous flavors to ‘Great American Recipe’

By Sandra Hale Schulman
Mashpee Wampanoag citizen and chef Sherry Pocknett. (Courtesy photo)
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Cooking with Indigenous love

By R. Vincent Moniz, Jr.
Chef Jessica Pamonicutt and her Ketapanen Kitchen catered an eveny on Sept. 28, 2022, at the University of Illinois Chicago featuring a variety of Indigenous foods with a modern twist, including blueberry and bison tamales, wild rice meatballs, carrot soup, medicine berry moose and watermelon. For dessert, she prepared pumpkin bread and pumpkin cake balls.  Pamonicutt is a citizen of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. (Photo by Amelia Schafer for ICT)
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Menominee chef paves way for Indigenous cuisine in Chicago

By Amelia Schafer