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- [Man] There's a contemporary 
phrase that we have

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(foreign language)

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frown turn to stone but 
the world is still alive.

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You know, we're in the 
midst of all this urbanity,

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we gotta make 
sense of our world.

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We are doing what we 
can with have available,

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and sometimes that means 
creating a cafe space

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in the back of a bookstore.

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- [Man 2] Just so 
everybody knows

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what our menu is today, 
to start off, we have

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a rosehip tea and 
an elderberry tea.

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A native green 
salad, and a dressing

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of walnut oil and blackberries.

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We have soft-boiled 
quail eggs, acorn soup,

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one of them with wildflower 
honey, one of them

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is left unsweetened, 
acorn flour brownies.

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We have venison, that's 
currently being smoked,

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with bay moral and bay salt

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from San Francisco 
Bay shoreline.

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So, (foreign language) welcome.

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(foreign language)

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Now let's eat.

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- [Vicent] Luis and 
myself started Mukwekma

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which in (foreign 
language) language in means

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art food.

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- [Luis] Is an 
organization we started

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in order to return our 
traditional ohlene foods

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to our families who haven't

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experience in at 
least two generations.

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- We just got to do what 
we have to do to make this

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foods stay in our lives 
on a regular basis.

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Even when it seems like we are 
going against a lot of odds.

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This very place right 
here could be where

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our direct ancestors 
gather 400, 500 years ago.

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- So right here this is 
the (foreign language)

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which is the yerba buena.

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This is an herb we make it 
into a tea, is that essential

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taste of home.

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(birds chirping)

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It makes us feel really 
good to be able to

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make this kinds 
of food, you know.

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To be able to use this 
ingredients and then see

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how happy they make people also.

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People I don't think 
understand, how decadent and how

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rich our diet is, you know.

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We always saw that our 
food is inherently bochi.

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(laughter) because of their 
ingredients on their own

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This is a blackberry yerba 
buena bay moral dipping sauce.

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And we add al little of 
acorn flour to this ethicana

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This the bay moral 
we gather yesterday,

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this are quail eggs (foreign 
language) in our language.

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This are going to be soft 
boil for three minutes.

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And we are going to have 
roasted medicine back strap

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that is wrap in yerba buena.

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We going to have Luis's 
acorn flour, brownies.

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- Which has something 
that we made

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to introduce acorn 
to our young people.

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We adapted a brownie recipe 
to include acorn flour,

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and to use coconut oil 
rather than butter.

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- You know, for me 
our contemporary foods

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that we are making, 
are foods that

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our people would recognize.

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Because they are rooted in 
everything that is traditional.

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We do not cook with 
anything that wasn't here

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in those pre-contact days.

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There is always room for 
creativity, but we also

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know that there are rules 
we have to follow too.

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With those rules, 
that means that

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we have to be steed 
fast and making sure

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we don't change things too much.

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Because that changes the 
nature of what our food is.

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By having ohlene foods here 
today, it makes it inarguable

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that we are here.

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