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Native American Culture - Food

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     After reading few articles regarding Native American culture and food, this certain type of cuisine is being restored and explored. The Sioux Chef is a team of chefs and food lovers that are attempting to revive the Native American cuisine and change the common view of food in North America. They do this in a way that is highlighting the significant culinary culture buried within Native American history. Sean Sherman is the CEO and founder of this organization, as he studies techniques of farming, hunting, fishing, and preservation during this era. He opened this business in 2014 and continues his goal of making this cuisine more accessible and understood. Sean Sherman of The Sioux Chef      There were different types of Native American tribes depending on what food they ate. According to Native-language.org  , some semi-nomadic tribes travelled frequently and constantly hunted for food, while some agricultural tribes stay on ...

Challenges of Native Americans - Wind River

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Map of wind river reserve       After reading a few articles regarding the challenges facing Native Americans in the communities in Wind River with abundant crime, it's obvious " There has always been the horrendous murder. There has always been the white-Indian tension. It’s always been something.” Offenses that might have been ignored before were the apparent cause of the rise in violent crime according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs on The New York Times article. Drug addiction and poverty are also two struggles facing the Native Americans in this Wyoming Reservation. The film Wind River illustrates the problem there is of young Native American women being targeted by predators and murdered as a man finds the frozen body of one when hunting and eventually helps the FBI investigate as he lost his own daughter as well, as described in an article by National Public Radio . Another article I read about the death of two young Native American girls on the same ...