Bundles

Tobacco Propagation Teaching with Maya Harjo and Ben Shleffar

Video: 36 min
Communities: Heron Shadow, California Indian Museum and Cultural Center

In this teaching produced for the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, Maya Harjo (Quapaw, Muscogee Creek, Seminole, Jewish) and Ben Shleffar (Blackfeet) teach about propagating tobacco, demonstrating with Lakota White Buffalo Calf Woman tobacco and Oaxacan tobacco.

Voices and Visions of Indigenous Terra Madre

Video: 7:46 min
Communities: 148 tribes hosted by the Khasi in Meghalaya, Slow Food International

Indigenous Terra Madre is the gathering of Indigenous communities and supporters that form part of the Slow Food movement. In November of 2015, representatives of 148 tribes from 58 countries gathered in Shillong, Khasiland, Meghalaya, India, to share information, strategies and resources around indigenous food and biocultural diversity. This video shares some of their voices and visions.

Indigenous Seed Keepers Network

Video: 3:17 min
Communities: Meskwaki Nation hosting Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, Six Nations, Chippewa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oglala Lakota, Ho Chunk, M'i’kmaq, Menominee, Chugach

This video, produced for the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network, and filmed at the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit in Meskwaki, features the philosophy of the community collectively articulated, set to the music of Pura Fe.

Nourishing the Body, Honoring the Land

Video: 2:42 min
Communities: Dancing Earth, Seneca, Bay Area

Nourishing the Body, Honoring the Land explores the transformative nature of Native foodways through dance, planting, stories, and movement focused on physical, spiritual, and traditional lifeways.

As part of The Cultural Conservancy's 2014 Workshop Series, we invited Rulan Tangen of Dancing Earth and Wendy and David Bray, knowledge holders from the Seneca Nation, to take us through an immersive, hands-on experience of traditional foodways teaching and learning.

Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy | Tending Nature | Season 3, Episode 4 | KCET

Video: 26:40 min

The commodification of food has led to a bottom-line approach that has disconnected people from their food sources entirely. The Cultural Conservancy, an inter-tribal organization headquartered on Ohlone land in modern-day San Francisco, is revitalizing Indigenous knowledge by inviting us to re-engage with the land, honor heirloom seeds, grow clean food and medicines, and decolonize our foodways.