Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 9, 2017 14:14:28 GMT -8
Good for them! Reject government bread.
As far as the sheep butchering goes, that's a real woman. It's in AZ. Maybe oyarde can take a break from judging to introduce HB34 to a nice girl with some sheep butchering skillz.
www.washingtonpost.com/national/miss-navajo-nation-contest-is-parting-ways-with-fry-bread/2017/09/05/c90ff000-9283-11e7-8482-8dc9a7af29f9_story.html?utm_term=.a23876b19630
As far as the sheep butchering goes, that's a real woman. It's in AZ. Maybe oyarde can take a break from judging to introduce HB34 to a nice girl with some sheep butchering skillz.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The Miss Navajo Nation pageant is parting ways with fry bread, the fluffy, golden brown delicacy that’s become a symbol of Native American culture but is rooted in oppression.
Women vying for the crown this week in Window Rock will prepare traditional Navajo foods instead, like blue corn mush or a cake made at puberty ceremonies.
Outgoing Miss Navajo Ronda Joe said the tribe’s new ambassador must know the history of those foods and speak about them in Navajo.
“We need to educate our people to utilize plants as food that are tied to our land, culture and beliefs,” she wrote in an email.
The change aligns with a movement in Indian Country to refocus on traditional foods and reinforce native languages.
Fry bread was born out of government rations given to Navajos on a forced relocation to eastern New Mexico in the 1860s. Traditional Navajo breads or cakes would be made of corn and cooked on hot stones or in the ground, not in a cast-iron pan filled with oil.
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Brian Yazzie, a Navajo chef who focuses on precolonial foods in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was drawn to the Miss Navajo contest while growing up because of the endurance and style displayed in the sheep butchering contest. He praised the switch from fry bread to a traditional food presentation.
“It encourages and inspires youth to step up and take a challenge of ancestral knowledge and ancestral roots,” he said. “It makes my heart happy to see that.”
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Women vying for the crown this week in Window Rock will prepare traditional Navajo foods instead, like blue corn mush or a cake made at puberty ceremonies.
Outgoing Miss Navajo Ronda Joe said the tribe’s new ambassador must know the history of those foods and speak about them in Navajo.
“We need to educate our people to utilize plants as food that are tied to our land, culture and beliefs,” she wrote in an email.
The change aligns with a movement in Indian Country to refocus on traditional foods and reinforce native languages.
Fry bread was born out of government rations given to Navajos on a forced relocation to eastern New Mexico in the 1860s. Traditional Navajo breads or cakes would be made of corn and cooked on hot stones or in the ground, not in a cast-iron pan filled with oil.
...
Brian Yazzie, a Navajo chef who focuses on precolonial foods in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was drawn to the Miss Navajo contest while growing up because of the endurance and style displayed in the sheep butchering contest. He praised the switch from fry bread to a traditional food presentation.
“It encourages and inspires youth to step up and take a challenge of ancestral knowledge and ancestral roots,” he said. “It makes my heart happy to see that.”
...
www.washingtonpost.com/national/miss-navajo-nation-contest-is-parting-ways-with-fry-bread/2017/09/05/c90ff000-9283-11e7-8482-8dc9a7af29f9_story.html?utm_term=.a23876b19630
