Indigenous Culture Celebrated at Minnesota State Fair

SAINT PAUL, Minn.-The Minnesota State Fair opened to thousands of attendees last week, kicking off the popular annual 12-day event to celebrate all things Minnesotan, including Indigenous people and culture.

While Indigenous culture has been visible in previous years, this year Native American representation takes the stage, literally, to showcase one of the most popular reasons people attend the fair: food.

On Sunday, the North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS), the nonprofit arm of the award-winning Native-owned restaurant Owamni, organized a full day of presentations featuring Indigenous music and food at Dan Patch Stage, one of the fair's interactive stages. Indigenous chefs Sean Sherman, Dana Thompson and others from NATIFS and Owamni talked about Indigenous foods and Minnesota Indigenous music artists such as Keith Secola and hip-hop artist Tall Paul.

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