Shelley Buffalo's guest appearances

Shelley Buffalo

The Native Seed Pod

Mid-Americana: Stories from a Changing Midwest

Spirit Plate

Simon Ortiz

Corrina Gould

Kao Kalia Yang

Rowen White

Adam Hammes

Mike Draper

Megan McKay

Bob Leonard

Liz Hoover

Kai Ora

Dawn Martinez Oropeza

Liz Garst

Brian Bruening

Zoe Bouras

Abdirizak Abdi

OwlTail

For many Indigenous people involved in the food sovereingty movement, reconnecting to ancestral foods is extremely powerful. Every time someone learns a new recipe, plants a seed, and feasts together, we are helping to transmit knowledge, technologies, and skills from one generation to the next. In this episode, we'll talk with Shelley Buffalo—Meskwaki seed keeper—about her experience of revitalizing cultural foods, growing practices, and language. We'll also talk about her involvement in the growing seed rematriation movement, which is helping to return heritage seeds to their communities of origin.  Topics covered in this episode:  Min 2:08: Meet Shelley Buffalo of the Meskwaki tribe Min 6:35: Favorite ancestral foods  Min 9:07: Shelley’s journey to seedkeeping Min 15:16: The experience of rematriation Min 18:09: Seed keepers as cultural memory keepers Min 19:13: Removing barriers Min 22:42: Healing through traditional food practices Min 25:09: Struggles with language Min 30:00: Looking ahead  Min 32:27: Improving land access    Spirit Plate is part of the Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about this episode of Spirit Plate at www.whetstoneradio.com, on IG and Twitter at @whetstoneradio, and YouTube at /WhetstoneRadio. Guest: Shelley Buffalo (@kiwate_restlessheart)

For many Indigenous people involved in the food sovereingty movement, reconnecting to ancestral foods is extremely powerful. Every time someone learns a new recipe, plants a seed, and feasts together, we are helping to transmit knowledge, technologies, and skills from one generation to the next. In this episode, we'll talk with Shelley Buffalo—Meskwaki seed keeper—about her experience of revitalizing cultural foods, growing practices, and language. We'll also talk about her involvement in the growing seed rematriation movement, which is helping to return heritage seeds to their communities of origin. Topics covered in this episode: <ul> <li>Min 2:08: Meet Shelley Buffalo of the Meskwaki tribe</li> <li>Min 6:35: Favorite ancestral foods </li> <li>Min 9:07: Shelley’s journey to seedkeeping</li> <li>Min 15:16: The experience of rematriation</li> <li>Min 18:09: Seed keepers as cultural memory keepers</li> <li>Min 19:13: Removing barriers</li> <li>Min 22:42: Healing through traditional food practices</li> <li>Min 25:09: Struggles with language</li> <li>Min 30:00: Looking ahead </li> <li>Min 32:27: Improving land access</li> </ul> Spirit Plate is part of the Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about this episode of Spirit Plate at <a href="http://www.whetstoneradio.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.whetstoneradio.com</a>, on IG and Twitter at @whetstoneradio, and YouTube at /WhetstoneRadio. Guest: Shelley Buffalo (@kiwate_restlessheart)


                Reconnecting with Our Foods & Seeds with Shelley Buffalo
            

In this episode, Shelley Buffalo talks with host Melissa Nelson about the healing power of ancestral foods, feeding the community with rematriated crops and medicines, and her work with Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative, Red Earth Gardens and Seed Savers Exchange.  They also explore the power of art and the beauty of seeds. This is the second of three episodes focused on Seed Rematriation, and is a co-production of The Cultural Conservancy and Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance’s (NAFSA) Indigenous Seed Keepers Network (ISKN). These episodes are part of a collection of Seed Rematriation media that we have co-produced with NAFSA and Rowen White.

In this episode, Shelley Buffalo talks with host Melissa Nelson about the healing power of ancestral foods, feeding the community with rematriated crops and medicines, and her work with Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative, Red Earth Gardens and Seed Savers Exchange. They also explore the power of art and the beauty of seeds. This is the second of three episodes focused on Seed Rematriation, and is a co-production of The Cultural Conservancy and <a href="http://nativefoodalliance.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance</a>’s (NAFSA) <a href="https://nativefoodalliance.org/our-programs-2/indigenous-seedkeepers-network/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Indigenous Seed Keepers Network</a> (ISKN). These episodes are part of a collection of Seed Rematriation media that we have co-produced with NAFSA and Rowen White.

Seed Rematriation with Shelley Buffalo

Shelley Buffalo is a visual artist and Food Sovereignty Coordinator for the Meskwaki Settlement near Tama, Iowa. Shelley was born near the Settlement, and much of her extended family still lives in Tama County. But her own journey has led her away and back more than a dozen times. For Shelley, sources of hope can come from anywhere, like her lifelong identification with punk rock, but the Meskwaki Settlement most recently called her back with its food sovereignty initiative, which restores ancestral foods, like corn and squash, and the traditional recipes that go with them. Shelley hopes to reverse the influence of government commodities on indigenous diets and to revive the stories of resilience that guide the Meskwaki lifeway. We talked about Shelley’s experience of racism in rural Iowa, how her birth experience in a hospital compared with her second birth experience at home, and why her work with food sovereignty may mean more to future generations than to her own. Learn more about the Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative at the official website for the Meskwaki Nation and on Facebook.

Shelley Buffalo is a visual artist and Food Sovereignty Coordinator for the Meskwaki Settlement near Tama, Iowa. Shelley was born near the Settlement, and much of her extended family still lives in Tama County. But her own journey has led her away and back more than a dozen times. For Shelley, sources of hope can come from anywhere, like her lifelong identification with punk rock, but the Meskwaki Settlement most recently called her back with its food sovereignty initiative, which restores ancestral foods, like corn and squash, and the traditional recipes that go with them. Shelley hopes to reverse the influence of government commodities on indigenous diets and to revive the stories of resilience that guide the Meskwaki lifeway. We talked about Shelley’s experience of racism in rural Iowa, how her birth experience in a hospital compared with her second birth experience at home, and why her work with food sovereignty may mean more to future generations than to her own. Learn more about the Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative at the <a href="https://meskwaki.org/?page_id=152" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">official website for the Meskwaki Nation</a> and on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MeskwakiFSI/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.

Punk Rock, Home Birth, and Indian Corn: Shelley Buffalo