Xia (She/Her)

I remember when this came up a few years ago on Twitter. There are First Nations restaurants, most (white) people just don’t go to them and where they are. Yes there are not a lot, it would be much better if there was more. The reason there isn’t is because of colonization and genocide.

But we also have to be careful because presenting a minority group as already extinct exists to help continue the perpetuation of the genocide. As Judith Butler describes.

An ungrievable life is one that cannot be mourned because it has never lived, that is, it has never counted as a life at all’

There is a surviving first nations food culture that doesn’t care whether Patrick Blumenthal has eaten it or not.

Also First Nations food has been heavily assimilated to into many cultures food. Mexican Food, Peruvian Food, etc When people eat these foods they don’t think of it’s relationship to First Nations, but there’s a connection.

Finally stuff like corn, tomatoes, potatoes all of this food that is widespread everywhere is from North and South America and only hits Europe and Asia in the early modern period. What is and isn’t a certain cultures food is not static but subject to forces of history.

Hi everybody! I have joined here from Hexbear. I’m not going to vote in anything. I hope we all stay federated but if not I now have two places I can post at from work.