From what I understand, Ireland is only now recovering it's pre-famine population.

Yeah it's only through learning about Palestine that I found out that "famine" is just a word to make "intentional starvation" sound like some natural phenomenon rather than a colonial weapon

@@evanbelcher my knowledge of the potato famine made that connection for me as well when they started saying "famine" in Gaza.

​@@TomTasker oh thank god the "" representend that. When you put those things ob famine i thought you thinked that event was fabricated or aomething, just like what tankies do with the starving people under urrs

@@naolidecomisso4108 i know english is hard but i'm glad you tried your best there little buddy, here's a gold star for you 🌟

Thank you for the mention, I am going to have to check that place out one of these days

Hilarious, as the founding of the Bay Area is based upon the “49ers” literally committing genocide on the natives of CA. Hundreds of thousands murdered. The history is there if you bother to care.

in Berkeley there’s also mak-'amham/Cafe Ohlone, run by members of the Ohlone nation, the original stewards of the Bay Area

Indigenous to what? Earth? Like all of us? You think they sprung up out of geysers like magic with some sort of special right over the continent? It was tons of different tribes, peoples, even other races, all killing each other for land for thousands upon thousands of years on these grounds. What preserved history are you talking about? There’s no written records from them, they don’t even know the names of the tribes before them, it’s all lost history, so much war and death with no records… all they can speak to is recent times and speculation on what things used to be like, which seems to be conveniently “we are spiritually superior, we understand the universe and life, we’re so nice and awesome and honorable and oh by the way the whole continent is ours cause chief Smokey nuts did a rain dance over a mountain or wtf ever. “Indigenous” ha. They killed for and took their land like everyone else on Earth. We are all indigenous to Earth and if you give up ground you only get it back by taking it. Welcome to Earth. “Preserving history” yeah that didn’t start til white people showed them how to. It was all word of mouth and trippy looking cow drawings in caves. There was no “indigenous cuisine”. It was whatever the earth provided in that location and time and was subject to change constantly, methods of preparing food varied wildly and changed constantly.

OOH I’m close by I have to go check it out thank you

There have been so many ecosides thanks to white settlers and white authorities over the past 500 years..... I wonder if we'll ever be able to make up for it

There have been so many eco-cides over the past 500 years in North America . I hope it's not too late to turn them around. It will probably take at least another 200 years to do so.

There was definitely some sort of twisted power and gratification that the colonists felt when decimating those things.

Not only that, but Cane Break ecosystems were home to the Carolina Parakeet, which despite the name was common throughout the south and up into the Great Lakes region :( absolutely stunning bird

This is ongoing to this day. Consider how prairies in central North America are up to 95% lost, in many cases for farmland. This ecological devastation is then used as a reason why these places are “less beautiful” than mountainous or coastal regions. People who live here have very little pride or affinity with their natural environments, making it much easier for companies and governments to continue destroying our ecosystems. People can’t love what they don’t know.

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Slava Ukraine! I am Croatian American. You can't have ajvar without peppers that originally came for the North American continent. Your vernikie are the best. Better than polish perogies.

​@@jenniferbrdar4605 without ajvar I don't think I would be the same...

What a kind comment!

I am Ukrainian on my mom’s side and Métis on my dad’s side in Alberta and the history of Ukrainian settlers here in western Canada and their relationship and exchange of culture with the indigenous peoples is very fascinating. Ukrainians were widely discriminated against by the predominantly English colonizers after already fleeing discrimination and conflict in their homes, but many found acceptance living and farming near First Nations and Métis communities that could empathize with that experience.

I was wondering if u have any resources for how I could learn about indigenous foods. Or resources that helped in food and healing journey.

This statement is completely disconnected from reality.

@@michelecox5241 Not really. They just are skimming a very deep and complicated problem.

Excuse? "Every starvation"? What are you talking about

@@michelecox5241Not really. Retailers waste over 4 million tons of edible food per year. We produce enough for everyone, but it's cheaper for rich companies to waste a full third of it instead of making sure people don't starve. Hunger, as an extension of poverty, is a policy choice

ohmigosh, I wish there were more Native restaurants around the country!

Thanks for the recc!

@@Reichukey What is their channel?

Man! To think that in the in the areas of California where a good portion of produce is grown is also food deserts says A LOT

That is really sad for a type of food that is kinda just OK.

This is absolutely true. As is the same for corn. As a kid it was 5 to 10 cents American per ear. My grandfather(born in 1912) said as a child it was about 10 cents per bushel. That's a giant bucket of corn.

For a long time, this was sort of the case with corn in Mexico as well - corn grown in Iowa was WAY cheaper to buy in Mexico, than Mexican-grown corn was. Because of the NAFTA agreement, and the heavy, heavy subsidization of the corn industry in the US. Which is wild, absolutely wild, considering corn was "invented" in Mexico!

@@TheRusty Basically all "Fair Trade certified" products fall under this, falling under FTA rather than specifically NAFTA. Trade organizations will ship produce, dairy, meat, grains halfway around the world to undersell local (usually significantly poorer) producers and stamp a label on their packaging that they're "Fair." And don't forget the costs and waste produced by shipping, the degradation of the nutrition of the product from being picked unripe and sitting in transit, the products that have to be thrown out from damage/spoilage which would've been fine if they'd been used more quickly...

it's degenerated humans that are out of control

If it makes you feel any better, feral hogs in Texas generally have parasites and wouldn’t necessarily be fit for human consumption anyways.

Bish u whiter then me

Exactly. The warriors of our tribes (I'm Ojibwe) were originally farmers and hunters, until the invasion from France and England (and Spain before them). There were occasional intertribal spats over hunting territory that would be solved through treaty and trade negotiations (there are thousands of years of wampum shell belts symbolizing tribal peace and cooperation), but there were no widespread wars requiring an entire warrior society before the European invasion. Our hunters became warriors when France and England were manipulating us against each other. North America (and Central and South) were full of farming and crafting cultures with continent-wide trade. The US highway system is built on top of intertribal trade routes predating most European countries.

they should also use the proceeds from videos like these to fund the transitions and help indigenous people on reservations be able to afford to take the time to rekindle those relationships with the soil and train up new stewards.

@@autumnstoptwo Not too sure there is much in the way of "proceeds". Reasonably popular channels generally make enough to keep the fire burning. But yes, generally I like your idea. 👍

Send that cheese to me! Lol. My family was too proud to take commodities, but we definitely qualified. My friend across the street got it, and I was so jealous of that cheese

That would be great. I'm Ojibwe (northeast/"midwest" around Lake Superior) and while I love any Native representation, like the show Rez Dogs, that's specifically southern/Oklahoma cultures, and shows about "out west" are usually Pueblo cultures, Plains based things are always Lakota, and all of that is great but there are so many tribes with completely unique cultures. We're not usually the topic of media and there's a lot never covered.

LMFAOAOAOAO My favorite 🤤 😂😂

Enjoy those rickets.

@@obsidianjane4413 Ah yes, Inuit and other Indigenous Nations of the Polar north live and have lived perfectly just fine subsisting off of seal meat and fat for literally thousands of years in a climate where little to no plants grow or exist :)

@@Rugged-Mongol As a Mongol, you should realize that you decedents didn't live at the pole. Feel free to look up and educate yourself on the health problems that came with that diet.

I'm in the Southwest, and so much of our agriculture is wholly dependent on irrigation. Meanwhile, plants that were part of indigenous food traditions (mesquite, prickly pear, etc.) either grow wild or are used in landscaping, and people choosing between rent and groceries walk right past them, because none of us know how to use what's right in front of us. (The mining history doesn't help, either. Harder to trust the plants in your backyard with a Sunperfund site in the next town over.)

We're doing alright, considering. We got free healthcare, unlike the rest of the US, cuz our tribal government is civilized enough to know to take care of its people. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7CRpLGZ2ZmvZ6M.htmlsi=rTnNAgM1tswsACrd

I've read a similar anecdote about an Australian Aboriginal man, who dealt with diabetes symptoms in town, but was able to function without insulin when he went into the bush and hunted and gathered traditional foods.

@@Eloraurora Yes! There was a great short documentary on coca-cola and the town people. And how diet changed everything. I can't remember the name.

@@Eloraurora Our family is the typical half Spanish half Pueblo here in New Mexico and I haven't figured out how we can go to a natural diet when we're split right down the middle. Like how do you incorporate both?? I'm going to have to study more on the Spanish natural foods.