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On Food, Culture + Storytelling

Words from our Founder, Chef Nico, on the importance of Indigenous food sovereignty.

Publications by First Nations Development Institute

A 3-part series on

Native Food Sovereignty, Native Food Security, and Serving Native Youth

Indigenous Foods Reference Cards

Handy printable cards with nutrition info, cultural + culinary insights

Food Is Medicine Toolkit

A comprehensive toolkit offering practical resources, examples, and pathways for integrating Food Is Medicine into both community and clinical settings.

6 Pillars of Indigenous Food Sovereignty

North American Food Sovereignty Alliance on why food systems work must go beyond access.

Foundations of an Indigenous Food System

A graphic guide to how plants, animals, elements and Indigenous wisdom contribute to sustainable foods systems.

reading list

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass--offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. 

Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way is the first book to focus on the dietary practices of the Navajos from the earliest known times into the present and relate them to the Navajo Nation's participation in the food sovereignty movement.

This collection examines colonization’s impact on Indigenous food systems and Native food sovereignty, with scholars, farmers, and activists sharing ancestral practices and strategies to overcome racism and industrial dependence, restoring traditional foods, health, and ecological balance.

Drawing on the Rarámuri concept of iwígara, Enrique Salmón explores 80 plants revered by North America’s Indigenous peoples, revealing millennia of ecological knowledge that emphasizes the interconnectedness of all life and the wisdom of traditional plant use.

The Dorito Effect shows America’s health crisis stems from flavorless industrial foods and artificial additives that reshape palates and drive overconsumption. Combining history and science, it reveals how reclaiming natural flavors can promote healthier diets and a sustainable food system.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.

Buffalo Bird Woman, a 19th-century Hidatsa gardener, shared traditional methods for growing, harvesting, and storing crops. Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden preserves her guidance, recipes, and harvest rituals, with a new introduction on Hidatsa ecological practices and Gilbert Wilson’s documentation.

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working—and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.

Raj Patel and Rupa Marya explore how inflammation links our bodies, society, and environment to structural injustices. Inflamed reveals these connections and proposes a radical ‘deep medicine’ rooted in decolonization, science, and Indigenous wisdom to heal both people and the world.

Raj Patel investigates the global food system, revealing famine, obesity, farmer exploitation, and supermarket deceptions, while highlighting international movements striving for sustainable, equitable food. He offers solutions to reclaim control from seed to plate and restore global nourishment.

Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, “destabilizing not just how we see the green things of the world but also our place in the hierarchy of beings, and maybe the notion of that hierarchy itself."

Translating Food Sovereignty follows Pacific Northwest activists challenging industrial food systems, advocating local, democratic control. Matthew C. Canfield shows how they navigate global governance to advance social justice, illustrating grassroots movements reshaping transnational food policy and ecological sustainability.

indigenous cookbooks

From acclaimed Indigenous chef Crystal Wahpepah comes an extraordinary cookbook that weaves powerful storytelling with 125 intertribal recipes to heal our bodies and restore our foodways—featuring a foreword by bestselling novelist and fellow Oaklandian Tommy Orange.

In this gloriously photographed book, renowned photographer and Native American–food expert Lois Ellen Frank, herself part Kiowa, presents more than 80 recipes that are rich in natural flavors and perfectly in tune with today's healthy eating habits.

Celebrating Indigenous food as the original local cuisine, this book pairs home-tested recipes with stories from Native cooks, activists, and harvesters. It explores wild rice, fish, game, vegetables, and berries, honoring regional tribal knowledge, health, and enduring relationships to land and water.

Next Level Chef winner Pyet De Spain celebrates her Mexican and Native American heritage in this collection of mouthwatering recipes, a vibrant fusion that ties us to the land and to one another.

tawâw [pronounced ta-WOW]: Come in, you're welcome, there's room. Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand's debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine and what it means to cook, eat, and share food in our homes and communities.

The Modern Navajo Kitchen offers 60 recipes blending traditional Navajo and global flavors, from fry bread to Navajo boba, with cultural insights, cooking tips, and meal plans—nourishing both body and heritage in every dish.

Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more than 100 ancestral and modern recipes from three-time James Beard Award–winning Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman.

Raised in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Loretta Barrett Oden blends Potawatomi and colonial culinary traditions into Indigenous-inspired cuisine. Corn Dance traces her journey as a pioneering Native chef, sharing recipes, stories, and cultural insights that celebrate ancestral foods and contemporary Indigenous foodways.

This groundbreaking cookbook brings together modern interpretations of ancestral recipes from Indigenous communities across North America. From comforting stews and grilled game to plant-based dishes and seasonal specialties, each recipe honors cultural heritage while embracing contemporary tastes.

Featuring an expanded array of tempting recipes of indigenous ingredients and practical advice about health, fitness, and becoming involved in the burgeoning indigenous food sovereignty movement, the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon A. Mihesuah draws on the rich indigenous heritages of this continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life.

This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest of the world: corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao—with more than 100 recipes.

Explore the natural history, ecological contributions, and cultural significance of manoomin (wild rice), and savor complementary wild foods and local flavors with more than seventy-five inspired recipes, including favorites from over a dozen Indigenous cooks from various nations.

The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen is a rich education and a delectable introduction to modern indigenous cuisine of the Dakota and Minnesota territories, with a vision and approach to food that travels well beyond those borders.

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Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness is located in Tvlse, Okla Humma, a city built on the treaty protected reservation lands of the Sovereign Mvskoke Creek, Cherokee, and Osage Nations, the ancestral homelands of the Kiowa, Comanche, Caddo, Apache, Arapaho, Quapaw and Wichita peoples.

We acknowledge their continuing connection to land, waters and community.

We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and their Elders past, present, and emerging.

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