Indigenous Food Systems: Books
This guide aims to start a dialogue and provide resources around Indigenization, anticolonialism, and decolonization in the local food system.
Non-Fiction
- Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the U.S.: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health by Devon A. Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover
- Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience by Enrique Salmon
- Salmon and Acorns Feed our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action by Kari Marie Norgaard
- Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard of the Fight against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture by Vandana Shiva
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Red New Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan Taiaiake Alfred
- Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec, Nick Estes (Foreword)
- Life in the City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Muller
- Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Autonomy of Justice by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
- What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? Edited by John Hausdoerffer, Brooke Parry Hecht, Melissa K. Nelson, and Katherine Kassouf Cummings
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Cookbooks
- New Native Kitchen: Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian by Freddie Bitsoie, James O. Fraioli
- The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen by Beth Dooley and Sean Sherman
- Native American Cooking An Indian Cookbook With Legends, And Folklore by G.W. Mullins
- The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook: Whole Food of Our Ancestors by Roxanne Swentzell & Patricia M. Perea
- Modern Native Feasts: Healthy, Innovative, Sustainable Cuisine by Andrew George Jr.
- Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, And Recipes From The Upper Midwest by Heid E. Erdrich
- A Gathering Basket Multimedia Cookbook by I-Collective
- Spirit Of The Harvest: North American Indian Cooking by Beverly Cox
- A Feast for All Seasons by Andrew George & Robert Gairns
- Where People Feast: An Indigenous People's Cookbook by Dolly Watts & Annie Watts
Fiction Books
- The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
- The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- The Antelope Wife by Louise Eldrich
- Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard
- We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom; illustrated by Michaela Goade
Indigenous-Owned Bookstores
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