Toasted Sister Podcast

In this special episode, I take you through the 4th annual Red Lake Nation Food Summit in Minnesota. Doug DesJarlait talks about walleye, Deb Smith talks about ancestral seeds, Veronica Kingbird-Bratvold talks about plant relatives, Dan Kimewon talks about corn and Kevin Finney talks about basket making.

March 2020: COVID-19 hit the fan and is affecting all in the restaurant industry, including Salmon n’ Bannock, the only Indigenous brick-and-mortar restaurant in Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. In this episode, I visit Salmon n’ Bannock and talk with Inez Cook, the owner, about her personal journey in the industry and how food around the world influences her palate.

Photo: Kass Cross

Alana Yazzie (Navajo) went from being wary of Facebook to becoming a lifestyle and food blogger with a big social media following. She goes by The Fancy Navajo and you can find her across all social media platforms cooking, gardening and modeling a signature, cheery aesthetic wherever she is in Native America.

Mentioned

The Fancy Navajo: https://thefancynavajo.com/

IndigiPopX: https://www.indigipopx.com/

In this episode, I visit Spirit Lake Native Farms in Minnesota and one of its owners, Bruce Savage (Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe), for a tour through the wild rice processing plant. Included in this episode is a short ASMR session that’ll make you tingle.

Tour photos are at ToastedSisterPodcast.com

Mentioned:

Bruce’s email address [email protected]

Natives on a Budget Podcast: http://nativesonabudget.com/

In this special episode I talk with Benjamin Shendo (Cochiti and Jemez Pueblo) and Linus Yellowhorse (Tohono O’odham) from Gatherings Cafe at the Minneapolis American Indian Center. They’re a couple of chill dudes who just fell into the kitchen and turned a job into a passion for feeding Indigenous food to Minneapolis’ Native community.

Vote for "Toasted Sister Podcast” in the Innovator category of the Local Hero Awards by Edible New Mexico magazine!

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"What They Say," new album by CW Ayon: https://cwayon.bandcamp.com/album/what-they-say

In this episode I talk with Donell Barlow (Ottawa) about her new book, “Bigfoot and Lightning Bug,” a children’s book about Bigfoot and the environment. Donell is a chef, certified holistic health coach and the author of “Medicine Tracks: A Memoir.”

Mentioned: “Ancestral guided wellness: A way of life for our ancestors, a movement that could heal our bodies and the planet” by Donell Barlow in Indian Country Today

Books mentioned:

“Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Culture Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health” by Devon Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover

“Fresh Alaska Cookbook” by Rob Kinneen

“Inventos Mios” by Rubi Orozco Santos

“tawâw” by Shane M. Chartrand

“Cooking with the Wolfman: Indigenous Fusion” by David Wolfman and Marlene Finn

“The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen” by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley

“Imminent Cuisine: Indigenous Food Futurisms” by Toasted Sister Podcast

Events mentioned:

IndigiPopX Sneak Preview, Saturday, Nov. 9 in Albuquerque

“Toasted Sister: A Talk on the Indigenous Food Movement with Andi Murphy of Toasted Sister Podcast” at Virginia Tech on Friday, Nov. 15

Alien Weaponry is a three-piece thrash metal band from New Zealand. The band members, Lewis de Jong (Maori), Henry de Jong (Maori) and Bobby Oblak (substitute bassist for Ethan Trembath), join me in the studio to talk about their U.S tour, the Indigenous history and stories in their music and their love for the Navajo Nation.

Their big Window Rock, Arizona show is on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at the Navajo Sports Center.

We made a zine about Indigenous food futurisms! It includes 24-pages of all-original work by myself, Monica Braine, junior editor of “Imminent Cuisine,” and seven other Native artists, illustrators, comic book artists, chefs and writers. In this episode, we talk about food in Indigenous futurisms and the work in the zine.

Zine contributors:

Elizabeth Lapensée (Anishinaabe/Metis/Irish), award-winning designer, writer, artist and researcher who creates and studies Indigenous-led media such as games and comics. Visit elizabethlapensee.com.

Donell Barlow (Ottawa), author of “Medicine Tracks- A Memoir” and the children’s book, “Bigfoot and Lightning Bug.” Donell is a certified holistic health coach. Visit donellbarlow.com for recipes and more information.

Kayla Shaggy (Diné/Anishinaabe), born in Shiprock, New Mexico, Kayla has been drawing comics since she could hold a pencil. To see more of her art and comics check out her website, kaylashaggy.gallery.

Tashia Hart (Anishinaabe), writer, artist and biologist from Red Lake, Minnesota. Learn more about her work at tashiahart.com.

Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva/Schottish), comic book artist and illustrator who has been making comics for over 15 years.

Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet/Cherokee), food activist focused on reteaching traditional foods through modern methods. She is the founder of Indigikitchen, indigikitchen.com.

Terry Fisher (Coushatta/Jena Band Choctaw/Alabama-Coushatta), halfway right. Inspired by an Indigenous worldview filled with creeps, monsters, pro wrestlers and degenerates.

I spoke to Cienan Muir (Yorta Yorta and Ngarrindjeri) at last year’s Indigenous Comic Con about kangaroo tail and I knew I had to collaborate with him for a future episode about Indigenous food in Australia. Well, this is the episode! While Cienan was in Albuquerque, I lured him into the studio to talk more about Indigenous foods in Australia, Native stories in pop culture and the upcoming Indigenous Comic Con Australia.

Germaine Simonson (Navajo) never operated a cash register before she took over ownership of Rocky Ridge Gas and Market, a grocery store in the middle of rural Navajo Nation, Arizona. This episode is about food entrepreneurship, making future plans and genuinely wanting to provide useful services for the Native community. Included is an interview with Jessica Stago, program director of business incubation for Change Labs. Produced with help from Alisha Murphy, my little sister and doctoral student focused on tribal economic development. More photos at ToastedSisterPodcast.com.