Very few real Aztecas dance in Mexico Tenochtitlan these days too. I wonder why.
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Check out Sioux Chef in Minneapolis. That one is pretty good!
I've actually been to a native american restaurant. It was on a reserve. They served buffalo burgers. It was fucking delicious.
To divide indigenous people with our current borders is anachronistic and not useful.
For example, Aztecs migrated from the current United States (or close, as there's no consensus) into Mexico. I bet they carried on culinary traditions. If so, dishes from Mexico City are an example of native (native to their first and their second land) cuisine.
Yaqui, Pima/Pima Bajo, Kickapoo and other groups lived and live both in the U.S. and Mexico. So, again, northern Mexican dishes might be "Native American" dishes.
But that notion alone is problematic as it implies the indigenous peoples' food was and is more similar than it actually is. We can have Quechua cuisine, Mayan cuisine, Cherokee cuisine, but grouping them up for a restaurant would be as easy as trying to open an "East Asian restaurant" or a "European restaurant". What to put on the menu? Lol.
I hope I'm not pedantic. I just don't agree with the divide of the indigenous people by our current nations, and I'm debating the air over here.
I'm from Sinaloa (Northwest of Mexico, south of Arizona) and the food is really really different from Mexico City's cuisine.
I've found that New Mexican food (from New Mexico) is really similar and uses the same ingredients. Also the vocabulary spoken in that region combines several Native American words with Spanish (words like adjectives, children or child, animals and foods names, etc) and if you go to our cousin state of Sonora that sits between Arizona and us, you'll see plenty of Yaqui and Mayo cultural references. They even have a baseball team called The Yaquis.
Exactly my point! And those are nice examples; indigenous culture is alive. Thank you for sharing.
Of course, not a problem.
Same shit for white people, British food vs English vs USA etc
Here's a couple of NPR stories about indigenous people running restaurants that reflect their cultures:
The Sioux Chef is excellent and deserves all the praise.
I feel like this post doesn’t give enough credit to Europeans who also killed millions of native Americans before the US was even founded.
Distinguishing between European settlers and (US) Americans feels a bit silly
Yeah but it helps make America look better and that's what counts
Yeah as he said. 500 years, the us is bearly above 100 years old.
The US is almost 250 years old by now, but your point still holds true.
The US is almost 250 years old, but it's bearly 100 years old. The bear shadow government took over in secret in 1925.
It WAS the oldest republic standing (not counting San Marino)
Ah, to be a teenager again
Also, a lot of their descendants were forced into re-education to replace their cultures with settler cultures. A practice even still ongoing.
imagine never having a fry dough experience....
FUCKING SAD
Indian frybread is good stuff, yeah.