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The Renewing America’s Food Traditions Alliance
RAFT PUBLICATIONS
 Savoring and Saving the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods
edited by Gary Paul Nabhan, Chelsea Green Publishing
In bookstores – May 2008
The book profiles more than ninety heritage foods most at risk, detailing their folk histories, their causes of endangerment, the efforts to recover them, and offering historic recipes with which to savor them once they’ve been recovered. The book’s appendix lists over 1,000 unique livestock, vegetables, fruits, fish and game at risk in North America.
To order the book, visit Chelsea Green Publishing.
Read an interview with Editor Gary Nabhan and Contributor Makalé Faber Cullen.
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 Renewing Salmon Nation’s Food Traditions
“Salmon Nation’s coastal rainforests, muskegs, mudflat clam beds, Palouse prairies, and river canyons look and feel unlike any other in the world. You can sense the distinctiveness of this eco-region wherever you travel within it—from Alaska, the Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, western Montana, Oregon, and northern California. But Salmon Nation also tastes unlike any other place—from its huckleberries and Oregon grapes to its Dungeness crab and alder-smoked salmon…."
To learn about the endangered heritage foods of Salmon Nation and about how to participate in their recovery, purchase this book http://www.ecotrust.org/publications/renewing_SN_foodtraditions.html
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 Renewing the Native Food Traditions of Bison Nation
This annotated list highlights certain food traditions of Bison Nation that could be restored concomitant with the restoration of free-ranging bison to large tracts of the short-grass plains and tall-grass prairies. The RAFT consortium offers this preliminary list to encourage more collaboration among conservation biologists, restoration ecologists, the Intertribal Bison Cooperative, wild foragers, hunters, chefs, nutrition educators and local food system activists. RAFT hopes that discussion of this inventory among diverse parties will eventually lead to more sustainable harvests of the unique, traditional foods of Bison Nation.
Download Renewing the Native Food Traditions of Bison Nation (PDF 8 pages, 770K)
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 Seafood Traditions at Risk in North
America
A RAFT List for Biological Recovery
and Cultural Revitalization
From potlatches and clambakes, to sea shanties and tales told in ice fishing huts, America’s cultural heritage has been built not merely on its fertile soils and mineral-rich mountains, but on its waters as well. That is where some of America’s finest artisans have practiced their traditions of weaving nets and basket traps, carving totem-style halibut hooks, harpoons, floats and lures, constructing stone traps, decoys and crab pots, or shaping canoes, kayaks, dories and pangas….
Download
Seafood Traditions at Risk in North America (PDF, 4 pages,
681k)
Download Guide to
Seafood of the Seri Indians (PDF, 2 pages, 400k)
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Audio recordings of Native American Food Producers and Stewards
RAFT partner The Cultural Conservancy (TCC) has documented stories of Native American food producers and food stewards from around the U.S. –individuals who are actively working to maintain, protect, renew and revitalize indigenous foods and food traditions. This year, TCC will produce a CD of audio recordings to be used for education and inspiration within Native American communities, to raise awareness about native foods with other food and environmental communities, and to build strategic alliances and initiatives to improve the health and accessibility of native foods to Native American communities. Excerpts from these interviews will be available here later this year.
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