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11/28/2025

In his second cookbook, “Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America,” Sean Sherman (Oglala Lakota), James Beard Award-wining chef and restaurateur, dives deeper into the Indigenous culinary communities of 13 regions of North America and Mesoamerica. He shares dozens of recipes inspired by his travels and the people he calls friends, teachers, and leaders that he encounters along the way.

Pyet DeSpain (Prairie Band Potawatomi) was already familiar with traditional everyday foods like frybread, meat pies, and corn soup growing up on the Osage reservation in Oklahoma. And on the Mexican side of her family, tamales, pozole, and atole were a staple. Now a well-known and award-winning chef, DeSpain is sharing that fusion of Native and Mexican cuisine and heritage in her debut cookbook, “Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking.”

https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/friday-november-28-2025-the-menu-celebrating-heritage-and-crossing-borders-with-chefs-sean-sherman-and-pyet-despain/

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In his second cookbook, “Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America,” Sean Sherman (Oglala Lakota), James Beard Award-wining chef and restaurateur, dives deeper into the Indigenous culinary communities of 13 regions of North America and Mesoamerica. He shares ...

11/27/2025

Thanksgiving is a holiday that often gives Native people mixed feelings.

Brian Bull of Buffalo’s Fire shares a few perspectives from across Indian Country, in the latest edition of National Native News with Antonia Gonzales.

Annmarie Decoteau is the Indigenous curriculum and instruction specialist for Bismarck Public Schools

A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Decoteau helps educators teach about Thanksgiving from a more authentic Native perspective.

Thanksgiving holiday stirs mixed feelings across Indian Country Gila River Indian Community residents get new market close to home

11/27/2025

A month after the devastating Western Alaska storm, hundreds of evacuees from Indigenous communities are sheltering in Anchorage hotels. This week, some received a delivery of subsistence food donations – a taste of home, ahead of Thanksgiving.

A tribal organization has been delivering subsistence foods to displaced families in their hotel rooms.

11/26/2025

Mel Tonasket (Colville Tribes) is one of the key reasons the Colville Tribes remain thriving today. As a newly elected tribal council member in 1971, he cast the deciding vote against a deal with the federal government that traded cash payouts to individual tribal members for the tribe’s permanent termination. Tonasket credits the mentorship of tribal activist Lucy Covington for guiding his insights and energy to protect the sovereignty of the 12-tribe coalition under the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. He since went on to an ongoing vigilance for hunting, fishing, and other treaty rights. He still serves on the tribal business council after decades of service in many capacities. We'll speak with Tonasket about the history of his tribe, his own call to leadership, and what’s next for his people.

Mel Tonasket (Colville Tribes) is one of the key reasons the Colville Tribes remain thriving today. As a newly elected tribal council member in 1971, he cast the deciding vote against a deal with the federal government that traded cash payouts to individual tribal members for the tribe’s permanent...

11/25/2025

On the cusp of what could be a new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), some researchers are urging caution and the need for deliberate controls to keep the developing technology from robbing Indigenous people of their cultures and sovereignty. A project with three universities provides a framework of standards to prevent AI from stripping Native Americans and all other Indigenous peoples of their right to control images, language, cultural knowledge, and other components of their identities they’ve worked so hard to retain. We’ll hear about the potential benefits and threats of AI to Native people.

GUESTS

Danielle Boyer (Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), robotics inventor

Randy Kekoa Akee (Native Hawaiian), Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development at Harvard University

Michael Running Wolf (Lakota and Cheyenne), community leader in AI research

Crystal Hill-Pennington, professor at the, University of Alaska Fairbanks

On the cusp of what could be a new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), some researchers are urging caution and the need for deliberate controls to keep the developing technology from robbing Indigenous people of their cultures and sovereignty. A project with three universities provides a framework....

11/24/2025

Social worker and political newcomer Sierra Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu will take office in January 2026 as Gallup, N.M.’s first Diné city council member. Notably a city along Route 66 and on the edge of the Navajo Nation, Gallup’s population is more than half Native American. Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu is one of a number of Native candidates filling local elected seats since the mid-term elections. We’ll talk with some of them about what their hopes are for their coming term of elected public service.

GUESTS

Sierra Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu (Diné), city member-elect for the City of Gallup, New Mexico Government

Ed Lowery Jr. (Lumbee), mayor-elect of Parkton, N.C.

Chris Roberts (Choctaw), mayor of City of Shoreline City Hall

David Holt (Osage), mayor of Oklahoma City, Okla.

Social worker and political newcomer Sierra Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu will take office in January 2026 as Gallup, N.M.’s first Diné city council member. Notably a city along Route 66 and on the edge of the Navajo Nation, Gallup’s population is more than half Native American. Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu is one ...

11/21/2025

New works by two best-selling Cherokee writers intertwine riveting fictional narratives with a dose of Native American historical reality. Vanessa Lillie’s “The Bone Thief” continues the suspenseful trajectory of Syd Walker, a BIA archaeologist first introduced in Lillie’s novel, “Blood Sisters.” This time, the setting for the story is present-day Narragansett territory in New England and colonial mythology about the first Thanksgiving plays a part.

Brandon Hobsen’s “The Devil is a Southpaw” takes readers back almost four decades to the heart of Cherokee country, but readers are warned upfront that the memories portrayed now may not be reliable. Hobson takes a surrealistic detour where both Salvador Dali and a character named Brandon H. make appearances. It’s an imaginative character study that propels a gripping story of love and loss.

https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/friday-november-21-2025-native-bookshelf-the-bone-thief-by-vanessa-lillie-and-the-devil-is-a-southpaw-by-brandon-hobson/

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New works by two best-selling Cherokee writers intertwine riveting fictional narratives with a dose of Native American historical reality. Vanessa Lillie’s “The Bone Thief” continues the suspenseful trajectory of Syd Walker, a BIA archaeologist first introduced in Lillie’s novel, “Blood Si...

11/20/2025

Family, friends, and tribal officials rallied to help after authorities in Iowa notified Leticia Jacobo she would be handed over to federal immigration officials instead of being released from jail. Jacobo is a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. After extensive pushback, authorities admitted her U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer was a clerical error. We’ll hear Jacobo’s story. We’ll also hear about what was behind the Nisqually Tribe’s public announcement that it would not house immigrant detainees at their tribal corrections facility. Tribal officials say it is against their values of treating people with dignity and respect.

GUESTS

Leticia Jacobo (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community), resident of Des Moines, Iowa

Maria Nunez (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community), Leticia’s aunt

Gabe Galanda (Round Valley Indian Tribe), managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman

David Leslie (Iñupiaq), q***r, Iñupiaq activist in Fairbanks, Alaska

Family, friends, and tribal officials rallied to help after authorities in Iowa notified Leticia Jacobo she would be handed over to federal immigration officials instead of being released from jail. Jacobo is a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. After extensive pushback, author...

11/19/2025

As 200 nations from around the globe meet on the edge of the Amazon rainforest to hammer out cooperative goals on climate change, Indigenous people are making their presence known. They are included in discussions but have no negotiation power outside of the official representation from the countries they reside in. Many Indigenous attendees have organized marches, experienced civil disobedience, and even clashed with security officials in order to have their voices heard. Notably absent from this year's talks is any senior Trump administration delegation. We'll hear Indigenous perspectives about their role at COP30.

We'll also hear from Cree journalist Brandi Morin, who spent months reporting on conflicts between Indigenous communities in Ecuador and Canadian mining companies. Currently, Ecuador's president is working on reforming the country’s constitution to open up more natural resources for extraction.

GUESTS

Taily Terena (Terena), Indigenous climate and land activist

Andrea Carmen (Yaqui), executive director of the International Indian Treaty Council

Edson Krenak (Krenak), Brazil program manager for Cultural Survival

Brandi Morin (Cree, Iroquois, and French), journalist

As 200 nations from around the globe meet on the edge of the Amazon rainforest to hammer out cooperative goals on climate change, Indigenous people are making their presence known. They are included in discussions but have no negotiation power outside of the official representation from the countrie...

11/19/2025

Hundreds of evacuees from Indigenous communities in Western Alaska are staying in Anchorage hotels after last month’s storms destroyed their homes. Some say they don’t know exactly what’s next — they hope to move into apartments eventually. But for now, in the middle of so much uncertainty, they're just trying to adjust to their new daily lives, so far from their land and everything they know.

Hundreds of people are staying in Anchorage hotels and with relatives while the state works on a plan to move them into apartments.

11/18/2025

Access to land for hunting, fishing, and gathering are foundational provisions in so many treaties between tribes and the federal government, but individual hunters and anglers are frequently challenged when out exercising those treaty rights. The legal justifications were settled decades ago following landmark rulings such as the Boldt Decision in Washington State and, more recently, in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judgement in favor of tribal hunting access on ceded lands in Idaho. We’ll review some of the history of hunting rights and how those continue to be scrutinized.

GUESTS

Dr. Cleve Davis (Shoshone-Bannock Tribes), a Ph.D in environmental science and the author of “So Long As Game May Be Found Thereon”

Charlie Smith (Fond Du Lac band of Lake Superior Chippewa), Consultant for Indigenous Business Advisors and a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Ceded Territory conservation committee

Derrick James (Choctaw), reporter for NonDoc

Access to land for hunting, fishing, and gathering are foundational provisions in so many treaties between tribes and the federal government, but individual hunters and anglers are frequently challenged when out exercising those treaty rights. The legal justifications were settled decades ago follow...

11/17/2025

A surprise insertion in the bill to end the federal government shutdown has thrown Native h**p producers into chaos. The language prohibits products like beverages, vapes, and gummies containing THC compounds derived from h**p. Those products were widely available and contribute to a nearly $30 billion industry. Among them is the Lac du Flambeau tribe that produces and sells h**p-derived products.

The end of the government shutdown also means the clock is ticking for Native Americans receiving health insurance subsidized by the Affordable Care Act. Without action by Congress, insurance premiums for those people will jump significantly after the start of the New Year. We'll hear about what the possible options are foa the millions of people facing a major hike in insurance costs.

GUESTS

Angie Wilson (Pit River Tribe), tribal health director for Reno-Sparks Indian Colony

Rob Pero (Bad River Tribe), founder and president of the Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association and the owner of Canndigenous

Candace Thompson (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Indians), director of cannabis operations for the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians

Dionne Holmquist (Aztec ancestry), director of biobased solutions at Makoce Agriculture Development

A surprise insertion in the bill to end the federal government shutdown has thrown Native h**p producers into chaos. The language prohibits products like beverages, vapes, and gummies containing THC compounds derived from h**p. Those products were widely available and contribute to a nearly $30 bill...

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