2012 First Nations Food Taster

The 2012 First Nations Food Taster is being held November 9th from 5-7pm on campus at NMU in the DJ Jacobetti Complex. Advanced tickets cost $5 for NMU students w/ID and Elders and $12 for the general public, or at the door it is $7 for students/Elders, and $15 for the general public. This is a dish bag event, so if you bring your own dishware, your name will be entered into a raffle.

The menu will include several DDP recipes including turkey/pumpkin soup, venison/bison meatloaf, roasted turkey, pecan encrusted fish, sweet potato chunks, wild rice, green beans, corn, maple baked beans, crab apple sauce, cornmeal/cranberry pudding, sunbutter cookies, maple roasted pecans, berries, pumpkin/corn bread, white pine/wintergreen tea, and sweet water.  There will also be a few non-DDP items on the menu including a wild rice/veggie dish, three sisters casserole, and fry bread. 

To purchase adavanced tickets, please visit us at 112 Whitman Hall on campus at NMU. For more information, email the Native American Student Association  at nasa@nmu.edu, call (906) 227-1397, or visit www.nmu.edu/nativeamericans

Wild Rice Event Cancelled Due to Weather

Due to the great likelihood of inclement weather, we are going to have to cancel the wild rice parching, dancing, and winowing event for this coming Saturday. There is an 80% chance of rain. That being said, there is still plenty of slots available for the cooking demonstration on Oct 27th at the Culinary Arts kitchen in the Jacobetti building on campus. Please call 906-227-1397 to rsvp for this limited participation event. Also, you may want to consider going to see the Homemade Jamz Bluesband and Flat Broke Blues Band that are performing Saturday evening at 7:30pm in the Great Lakes Rooms of the UC on campus at NMU.

2012 Week of Eating Indigenous Foods Challenge

Dr. Devon Mihesuah, the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in Humanities and Western Civilization at the University of Kansas, has announced the 2012 Week of Eating Indigenous Foods challenge in support of the Decolonizing Diet Project. Locally, we are calling this the Mini-DDP challenge. Over 100 folks engaged in this challenge last year. Dr. Mihesuah's Facebook site for the challenge is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Week-of-Indigenous-Eating/478119175562387?ref=hl