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Bestsmelling Author & Food Writer Ayukîi! 👋🏼 she/her Karuk & Italian 🪶🍝 “Chími Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen” https://linktr.ee/thefrybreadriot

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · Nov 16

Ayukîi! I’m a Karuk tribal member & author of Chími Nu'am, Native CA Foodways For the Contemporary Kitchen
🍅 Working in community food security & recipe development
🦋 I’m a Doula (CFIM certified full-spectrum) Supporting birth with cultural connection & advocacy
I 🩷 sewing, reading & video games

Outdoor photo of the Trinity river on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. This site on the river includes a traditional village site & a reminder of the fish wars with the rocks on the beach spelling out FISH ON. The view is shot looking upriver with the rising sun in the east (left side)

A bowl of huckleberry gazpacho with acorn bread croutons on a sunny day. Garnished with smoked salmon, fresh summer corn, purslane, fennel & edible flowers.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 3h

Ah driving down 101 seeing all the “No On 50” signs posted by ranchers & farmers who hold huge swaths of land along highways in CA. Like these chucklefucking white supremacists cannot help themselves, they are so committed to the bit, like if the Titanic band played Toby Keith & also sunk the ship.

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 3h

This is the life i’m striving for

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 17h

👋 hi BLM did cancel the project and now different parts of it have to go it alone. what was once almost done with a federal permitting is now an “early stage” effort in their words of developers. hope this explanation helps!

Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 23h

“The BLM did not cancel the project,” the email reads. “During routine discussions prior to the lapse in appropriations, the proponents and BLM agreed to change their approach for the Esmeralda 7 Solar Project in Nevada.”

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Wait, The Esmaralda 7 Solar Power Projects Are Not Dead, Yet

Rumors of the death of the Esmeralda 7 solar power and energy storage projects in Nevada have been greatly exaggerated, for the time being...

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Vicki!

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I also did the photography 🫣

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

✨There are also two NEW cookbooks coming out from badass Indigenous chefs that are not to be missed!✨
Turtle Island by Chef Sean Sherman opened preorders recently: birchbarkbooks.com/products/tur...
And a Feather & A Fork by Chef Crystal Wahpepah coming in Spring! www.instagram.com/p/DPwQ8C_EbJ-/

Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America

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 150 ancestral and m...

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People's Day! I'm a Karuk food sovereignty advocate, traditional food gatherer, food writer & old nerd. My people are on the Klamath River & I grew up in the Hupa Valley. I wrote a cookbook about the way I use tradish foods in my family: tinyurl.com/4dufbvux

Chími Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen — Quiet Quail Books

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

I am terrible about posting links to my book 🫣 I’ve been so busy all week & weekend working & gathering I hecking forgot it was Indigenous People’s Day today. Like today is a vortex day between Sunday & Monday because I’m so tired lol

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

Our education systems are colonial too, they intentionally suppress the truth to continue the genocide & oppression in perpetuity unchecked. We can all see the clown car is balancing on the head of a pin after 200+ years of theft & violence. My book is easy to find online & I’ll post a link!

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Jen Deerinwater @jendeerinwater.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus brought rape, enslavement, thievery, sex & human trafficking, disease, & genocide to the so-called Americas that still impacts Indigenous people heavily to this day. Example: I’ve been in a years long fight to get Disability accessible stable housing. I need your help. #IPD #LandBack

Donate to Help Disabled Two-Spirit Leader Create Accessible Home, organized by Susan McClannahan

As friends and community members, we’re pulling together fun… Susan McClannahan needs your support for Help Disabled Two-Spirit Leader Create Accessible Home

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Indigenous Women Rising @iwrising.bsky.social · 1d

Everyday is Indigenous Peoples Day but today we say FUCK COLUMBUS just a little louder.

Non-natives, a great way to acknowledge this day is to donate to Indigenous Led organizations that support and benefit Indigenous People directly.

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Fromthemixedupdesk @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

dm me if you want to get into more granular details or want some help with a menu or cultural food research. I’m also Southern Italian American & Scandinavian American, I’m choc full of fish people. And I can help you support the Wampanoag, they still grieve, it’s not a happy holiday for them.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

I mean the kids get a week off of school and people don’t have to work, no reason not to celebrate precious time together! And in a good way that furthers your own connections to your cultural background & traditions & erodes colonial narratives & supports Wampanoag people & local Native issues.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re in CA, I have a full slate of those feast recipes in my book. The main thing is that it’s not a pan-Indian holiday, we don’t all want to participate in it. But I’m glad that you want to decenter the colonizers & recenter the Wampanoag & connect to other types of fall feast traditions.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t celebrate it as a US holiday, but it falls around the Karuk new year, a big gathering, feasting, harvesting time. And I live in the Bay Area & like to join the prayers at Sunrise Ceremony on Alcatraz, then people can stop by my house afterward on their way home for a feast & nap.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I keep in mind is that the Thanksgiving betrayal happened to the Wampanoag, not every tribe in the US experienced that event. The original meal in that act of generosity & kinship is made from their traditional foods. Squashes, turkeys, corn, etc. Many Native people don’t celebrate it.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 2d

I know Will i laughed so hard I needed to put a cold washcloth on my face. i still have the aftergiggles 😮‍💨

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 2d

i laughed so unexpectedly at this that I spit out a crunchberry and that made me laugh even harder & then I remembered something else that happened earlier (I drove away from the gas station with the hose still attached) and i am crying i can’t stop laughing and corn is everything else 😂

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 2d

oh my gosh he’s so cuuute he’s such a villain but i want him to burgle treasures from the Louvre

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 2d

And to be clear I rarely go to Target anymore since the rollbacks of DEI policies, but when I’m away from home sometimes I need that good kleenex.

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 2d

You don’t go to Target because a child might be loud? Yikes. My kids are raised too but I still enjoy being part of society & creating a safe space for children to have emotions near me. I want parents to know their children are no bother, learning to regulate our feelings is really hard.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 3d

a cartoon character is holding a lighter with a red and white stripe on it

ALT: a cartoon character is holding a lighter with a red and white stripe on it

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 3d

When I was pregnant I would wrap dill pickles with fruit roll ups so I guess you can tell her to deal me on those salummy bears.

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 3d

I love locking eyes with a toddler who is about to lose their shit & whispering “do it, let it out, you’re right this IS bullshit” and their eyes get big like they’re seeing the devil herself. Yes babes release your howls unleash the darkness rend the fabric of our eardrums and cleanse this Target.

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