Kris Barney 'Remembering the Great Diné Foodways'

 

'Small gifts from the cornfield' Photo copyright Kris Barney

Kris Barney 'Remembering the Great Diné Foodways'

By Kris Barney, Dine', Censored News, Oct. 29, 2025

My grandma used to make mutton and goat jerky, dry steamed corn, preserve corn for long-term storage, dry apricots and peaches, dry cantaloupe melons, dry herbs and bulbs collected in the springtime; wild parsley, greens like wáá, mariposa lily, wild onions, dry out strips of winter pumpkin/squash and used all kinds of food preservation techniques. She even collected wild grass seed from Ndn ricegrass to save later and she grounded that to make flour and small cakes.

Blackfeet,Chippewa and Kickapoo Feed the People During Government Shutdown

Blackfeet, Chippewa and Kickapoo Feed the People During Government Shut Down

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Updated Oct. 29, 2025

The Blackfeet Nation in Montana is preparing to feed the people during the government shutdown by distributing buffalo meat and organizing an elk hunt. In North Dakota, the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Nation is keeping all its food programs going, with hot meals and bagged lunches, and making sure children, elderly and college students don't go hungry.

On the west coast, an Indigenous restaurant owned by Crystal Wahpepah, Kickapoo, is serving up free bison tacos for young ones and elders in Oakland, California. 

Mohawk Nation News 'Land Caregivers VS. Corporate Demolishers'

LAND CAREGIVERS VS. CORPORATE DEMOLISHERS

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Kan1enkehaka

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2025/10/28/land-caregivers-vs-corporate-demolishers/

MNN. LAND GIVERS VS. CORPORATE DEMOLISHERS. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 is a British order-in-council issued by King George III to establish the basis for relations with indigenous peoples on onowarekeh turtle island. All lands were to be retained by the indigenous and the settlers were to be restricted. The king of England bankrolled the colonial encroachment backed with military force. It was to be the framework for relations between the king’s colonial settlers and the indigenous peoples. This agreement is the foundation of  Canada’s responsibilities for all of the Canadian and US colonial settlers. This is the framework for true reconciliation. Canada is still a colony of Britain and its relationship with the indigenous is based on the Royal Proclamation 1763.

Mohawk Nation News 'ONONKWA' (Medicine)

 

‘ONONKWA’ [Medicine]

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Kan1enkehaka

MNN. ONONKWA [MEDICINE] MONTREAL. Oct. 23, 2025. 

Our kaianerekowa great peace provides that you don’t fight until you die. You fight until you win. This is the conversation we have been having about drug abuse and suicide rising up in indigenous and mainstream communities. In our case tobacco and now  vape and cannabis dispensaries are being set up in our communities because the colony of Canada has made a law, the Indian Act, and now to sell drugs. Colonial law which forbids the development of self-sustaining indigenous economies on our unceded land to care for ourselves. The people and the land are being polluted. The tobacco trade made a few rich. Now other drugs are coming into our ccommunities. It is disrupting our children, babies, people, causing break-ins, crime, violence, suicides, children being removed, and no jobs. We are surprised how big the addictions are throughout our land.