Native Foods+
We have always eaten.
Traditionally, our ancient Indigenous ancestors and cultures spent centuries upon centuries learning, knowing, and developing the best food practices - often including when and what to harvest or hunt, fish, preserve, how to prepare each food for a safe and thriving gut health, and when to eat.
While AIDA does not offer professional medical advice for best food practices to combat diabetes in our communities, we do offer an ever growing, burgeoning list of Indigenous food resources - though we do know that foods taken into our Indigenous bodies, how they are processed and brought to us, our genetic makeup, and our current lifestyles are linked to diabetes and other ailments.
Please feel welcome to click on any Native Foods+ related link below.
- Alter-Native: What A Six Course Gourmet Native American Meal Looks Like
- American Indian Health and Diet Program (AIHDP)
- Arizona Indian Festival: Native Food Experience
- Beauty By Earth - Native American Cuisine
- Buckeyes: California Indians Process Wild Buckeyes [Nisenan/Maidu Tribe]
- Chef Brian Yazzie [Navajo]
- Chef Freddie Bitsoie [Navajo]
- Chef Loretta Barrett Oden [Potawatomi]
- Chef Pyet DeSpain [Prairie Band Potawatomi]
- Chef Walter Whitewater [Navajo/Dine]
- Chickasaw Nation Foods
- Cooking Kanuchi, A Cherokee Tradition
- Corn Dance Cookbook
- Dakota Life - Bringing Back The Traditional Native American Diet
- Foods Eaten By The Lenape Indians (Delaware Tribe)
- Gatherings Cafe
- Great Plains Tribal Leaders' Health Board - Traditional Foods
- Hopi Life - 1920s Silent Film
- Indigenous Foods of California: Acorns, Quails, and Cattails Exhibit
- Inuit and Their Indigenous Food
- Intertribal Agriculture Council: American Indian Foods
- Kiowa Foodie (via Benjamin Lee Bison)
- Lakota Mall
- Leech Lake Wild Rice Sales
- Lenape History and Food
- Linda Black Elk - Native Forager
- Meet the Sioux Indians
- Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe
- National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Native Life and Food
- Native Eats Planet - Chubby Wubby NYC / World Travel Babes
- Native Seed Pod, The
- North Dakota: 10 Traditional Native American Recipes
- Outdoor Fish Cookery of Makah Tribe [Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx]
- Owamni Restaurant
- Pawnee Nation Local Food Research And Development
- Pawnee Traditional Foods
- Pyet's Plate [Prairie Band Potawatomi]
- Pueblo Book Club - Foods of the Southwest Recipes
- Quileute Current Life and Food Ways in 1950
- Red Mesa Cuisine
- Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Food
- [Native] Salmon Cooking
- Samoan Traditional Outside Oven ('Umu)
- Sean Sherman - The Sioux Chef
- Seminole Food
- Tasting Table: 21 Native American Foods You Should Try At Least Once
- Thirty Nine Restaurant [In Oklahoma]
- Traditional Apache Foods - San Carlos Apache College
- Trail of Florida's Indian Heritage
- 11 Native American Restaurants (AFAR)
- Twelve Indigenous People In Food Who Are Changing The Culinary Landscape
- Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Invests in Corn Milling
- Wahpepah's Kitchen [Kickapoo] In California
- White Earth Wild Rice Harvest - Manoominikewag
- Wild Onions: A Cherokee Foraging Tradition
- Wishi: A Cherokee Delicacy
- Yup'ik Messenger Feast
- Yup'ik Traditional Fish Trap
- Zuni Traditional Food Demonstrations