Abstract
In this commentary, I focus on the impacts of Indian boarding school food on American Indian foodways and community as a source of acculturation that has a lasting effects even in the present day. From the introduction of specific foods that now make up the modern diet of many American Indian communities, to the generational cycle that begins in utero, the taste buds of American Indian children are still subject to the “American Indian Boarding School experiment” that began in the late 1800s. Only American Indian communities can determine when that experiment stops. See the press release for this article.
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* A-dae Romero-Briones, JD, LLM (Kiowa/Cochiti), Director of Programs, Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative, First Nations Development Institute; 2432 Main Street, 2nd Floor; Longmont, CO 80501 USA; +1-303-774-7836; abriones@firstnations.org. This commentary is informed by my experience in the backyard of my grandmother’s home in front of an old steel stove that she used in summertime to cook all the family meals
While researching the journey of my greatgreat-grandfather and the journey of countless American Indian children who were sent to Carlisle Indian School, I came across pictures of well
The system of American Indian boarding schools did much damage in every one of the basic institutions that made up Indigenous society, but most scholarship focuses on the educational institution
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Submitted February 6, 2019/ Accepted February 7, 2019 / Published online December 3, 2019.
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