Research is showing, though, that these ancient diets have the ability to prevent and even reverse the effects of conditions like diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. As a result, health care experts hope to bring these meals back into practice, especially by the people who first started them.
“We have always been plant-based nutritionists,” said Carrie Dallas, who is from Four Tribes and serves as the project coordinator for the Lasting Indigenous Family Enrichment program at Native Americans for Community Action (NACA). “There’s no such thing as a weed. Plants are either edible or medicinal, and that’s the way it’s been.”
Veganism is for everyone and this article is a nice reminder of that. They’ve even gathered Native American recipes here too.