Podcasts about tanka bar

In this podcast, we are fortunate to speak with Dawn Sherman, Chief Executive Officer of Native American Natural Foods, which produces the unique, all-natural Tanka Bar, a buffalo jerky snack bar based on authentic Native American food traditions. We learn how Tanka Bar is part of returning the buffalo to Native American lands and what that means in terms of indigenous people, cultural traditions and environmental and social justice. We also learn how Tanka Bar is expanding economic horizons for the Native American producers it represents and also how the brand is working with Niman Ranch and its plans for the future.

Tanka bars are probably the most recognizable Native American food product in the US. In this radio program, Dawn Sherman CEO of Native American Natural Foods takes us through the organizations history, challenges in the past as well as present day aspirations. Producer: Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan) Interviewee: Dawn Sherman (Lakota, Shawnee, Delaware) Music : "Saami Drum" by Tyler, used with permission "Burn your village to the ground" by A Tribe called Red, used with permission.

Dani moderates a conversation with Best-Selling Author Michael Pollan, Niman Ranch's Paul Willis, and Tanka Bar’s Dawn Sherman. They discuss how we can achieve a more balanced, resilient food system that is better for our health, communities, animals and food and agriculture sector workers.

In our visit with Mark Tilsen in the Black Hills for Episode 5 about Tanka Bar, our interview happened to take place right before a prayer walk to a proposed gold mining site up the creek from Mark's place.  As I began to include this synchronous content in the Tanka Bar episode, I realized that it lit up a section of the rabbit hole that needed it's own episode for a proper introduction, so I created this bonus episode to explore some of the complexities that emerged while looking at gold mining in the Black Hills.  It includes another historical introduction, audio from the prayer walk, and recordings from phone conversations with Mark Tilsen and Cheryl Rowe of Dakota Rural Action. Here's a photo of the Homestake Mine site, photo credit to Rachel Harris: Links: Tanka Bar: Dakota Rural Action:  Mineral Mountain Resources:  U.N. Special Report on Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.: You can find the album, Under a Buffalo Sun, containing John Trudell's Buffalo Wild poem, and another album of Mignon and Good Shield's entitled Soul-A-Mente. You can find the New Food Economy article Mark mentions in the update interview . Michael DiGiorgio recorded the banjo-bird jams I'm using in the intro and ending. You can find his amazing nature art at . Mike says that if you'd like to buy the album of his nature-banjo jams, you can find his email on his website and he can mail you a CD.          

In this episode, the second of four in this series on the bison in the Great Plains, we visit the lands of the Oglala Lakota in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota, where we met with Mark Tilsen, cofounder of Tanka Bar.   Tanka Bar, a company owned and operated by the Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Reservation, created the first commercial bison meat and fruit bar based on one of their sacred foods, called wasna.  The mission of Tanka Bar is to restore the Pine Ridge landscape and economy by bringing back the buffalo.  Before the interview with Mark, I also share a bit more history of the time of the buffalo slaughter.  I feel it's useful to have some understanding of the creation of the wounds that Tanka Bar is working to help heal. There's also a bonus episode that wove with the buffalo investigation in the Black Hills, that will be released days after this one. We'll look at historic and and current natural resource struggles in lands granted to the Oglala Lakota in 1868.  It's much the same story as the extermination of the buffalo that we dive deeper into in this episode, but has enough non-buffalo complexities that I decided to give it it's own space in a bonus episode.  It includes an interview with Cheryl Rowe of Dakota Rural Action. You can find out more about Tanka Bar and the Tanka Fund at the following links: You can find the album, Under a Buffalo Sun, containing John Trudell's Buffalo Wild poem, and another album of Mignon and Good Shield's entitled Soul-A-Mente. You can find the New Food Economy article Mark mentions in the update interview . Michael DiGiorgio recorded the banjo-bird jams I'm using in the intro and ending. You can find his amazing nature art at . Mike says that if you'd like to buy the album of his nature-banjo jams, you can find his email on his website and he can mail you a CD.    

Native American Natural Foods makes Tanka Bars, the first brand of bison meat bars, experienced a couple of ups and downs in business since it started in 2006. But since competition from non-Native companies swept up all the investments and money in the last couple of years, Tanka Bar is left to restructure its brand. In this episode, I talk with Mark Tilsen, president and co-founder of Native American Natural Foods. The New Food Economy article: “Bison bars were supposed to restore Native communities and grass-based ranches. Then came Epic Provisions.”

Mark Tilsen President and Co-Founder of Native American Natural Foods, the innovator of the first national meat snack bar, Tanka Bar, joins our podcast. Tilsen explains how the Tanka Bar is helping break the social, economic, and political isolation of the Indian reservation where it is produced and how buffalo meat is healthier and more environmentally sustainable than beef.

For the show notes (guest bio, summary, resources, etc), go to: www.lifteconomy.com/podcast

Host Lakota Harden interviews:Gene Tagaban from Tlingit Dance group, performing at the Inaugaration. Patrick Shining Elk, starring in La Mission, film by Peter Bratt, and The Only Good Indian, Premiering at Sundance Film Festival this month. Also Mark Tilsen from TANKA BAR, will be giving an update on their coupon program. New music by Jeremy Good Feather and Eyabay, and the Bay Area Indian Calendar. The post Bay Native Circle – Gene Tagaban from Tlingit Dance group, performing at the Inaugaration appeared first on KPFA.