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Activist cooks are working to "reindigenize" California by promoting native food plants.
"If you want to wreck a culture, hit it in the kitchen."
Paiute peoples in the Owens Valley have been fighting for their water since the 19th Century. They haven't stopped.
Wildcrafting without respect for the land and the Native peoples who depend on it, can cause big problems.
Thanksgiving has long been criticized as a whitewashed holiday that erases Native people. With Standing Rock, those criticisms become more pressing.
It's easy to cultivate this versatile Native food and medicine plant.
This popular plant is a cinch to grow.
"Food and medicine surround us."
"Herbalism is so much more than just, 'Here's an herb. Go ahead and take it.' The way I was trained was actually sitting in the woods."
Native people found treatments for many common ailments in the plants with which they shared the landscape.
In order to understand the desert and the peoples who lived there from time immemorial, you have to understand what deserts lack most.
If you smell something burning this week as you visit Sequoia National Park, that might just be two centuries of cultural misunderstanding going up in smoke.
