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From EDJ: Local Businesses to Support this Native American Heritage Month

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From EDJ: Local Businesses to Support this Native American Heritage Month
From EDJ: Local Businesses to Support this Native American Heritage Month

November is Native American Heritage Month! Check out these local restaurants, businesses, and galleries to support our local Indigenous community. EDJ stands for Equity, Diversity, and Justice. EDJ is an initiative at Lake Country School to live out its mission to "promote diversity and inclusion, as well as respect and responsibility to self, to others, and to the earth."

Food

  • Owamni
    • Decolonizing your dining experience, Owamni prioritizes purchasing ingredients from Indigenous food producers and have removed colonial ingredients from their menu, including wheat flour, cane sugar and dairy. They welcome you to experience the true flavors of North America, featuring foods of Mni Sota Makoce, Land Where the Waters Reflect the Clouds. The restaurant is located at OwamniYomni, the sacred site of peace and well-being for the Dakota and Anishinaabe people.
  • Indigenous Food Lab
    • The Indigenous Food Lab inside the Midtown Global Market is a professional Indigenous kitchen, training center, market and kitchen. Shop the market, which has everything from Red Lake Nation wild rice and frozen bison, to handmade beaded earrings and soaps made from native plants, then order something to eat! Indigenous Food Lab only uses foods indigenous to North America, so no flour, dairy, pork, chicken, white sugar, or anything brought by colonizers. Try the tacos, the Indigenous grain bowl, or čhoǧ íŋyapi, something like an open-faced corn sandwich.
  • Gatherings Café
    • Gatherings Café serves fresh, locally grown foods that are Indigenous and prepared in healthy ways. In the heart of the urban Native American community, their goal is to educate the greater community through ancestral knowledge and to promote decolonized diets to improve the health of the Native population that has been severely impacted by colonization and the resulting historical trauma.
  • Pow Wow Grounds
    • Pow Wow Grounds, located next to All My Relations Gallery, offers specialty coffee drinks, baked goods, smoothies, sandwiches and signature wild rice products.

Retail, Arts, and Galleries

  • Birchbark Books
    • Good books, Native arts, jewelry, and community events. Owned by author Louise Erdrich, Birchbark Books is operated by a spirited collection of people who believe in the power of good writing, the beauty of handmade art, the strength of Native culture, and the importance of small and intimate bookstores.
  • Two Rivers Gallery
    • Two Rivers Gallery is an active space for the community to build relationships and to collaborate and strengthen Native art and artistic voices within the Twin Cities. Their mission is to expose local emerging Native artists by providing a space to exhibit work, nurture creativity, and provide professional development. Hours are by appointment only.
  • Woodland Indian Crafts
    • Browse a unique selection of handmade gifts by local artists at Woodland Indian Crafts. Find beadwork of all types, jewelry, native music and movies, beading supplies, t-shirts, greeting cards and more.
  • All My Relations Gallery
    • All My Relations Arts honors and strengthens relationships between contemporary American Indian artists and the living influence of preceding generations, between artists and audiences of all ethnic backgrounds, and between art and the vitality of the Minneapolis American Indian Cultural Corridor.
  • Okciyapi
    • The Walker Art Center’s Minneapolis Sculpture Garden has a new installation by artist Angela Two Stars. Okciyapi is the first sculpture by an Indigenous artist commissioned by the Walker for the sculpture garden. Meaning "help each other" in the Dakota language, Okciyapi was created as an homage to the Dakota people and their endangered but resilient language, and to all those who are working to ensure the language not only survives but thrives.