Nuwu Pahsats Speaker Series: Indigenous Foodways with Crystal Wahpepah

Name: Nuwu Pahsats Speaker Series: Indigenous Foodways with Crystal Wahpepah
Start: 2024-06-22T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-06-22T18:00:00-07:00
Location: 333 S. Valley View Blvd., Las Vegas, NV, United States, Nevada 89107

Schedule

Sat Jun 22 2024 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

333 S. Valley View Blvd., Las Vegas, NV, United States, Nevada 89107 | Las Vegas, NV

The Nuwu Pahsats (Southern Paiute Garden) Speaker Series at the Springs Preserve provides a space for Indigenous Knowledge Givers to share their cultural lifeways and experience with the greater community. Emphasizing sustainable relationships with water, plants, and the landscape, the speaker series creates an opportunity for collaborative, community-based learning that inspires guests to think differently about their relationships with nature.
For the engagement on Saturday, June 22, 2024, guest speaker Crystal Wahpepah will discuss Indigenous Foodways. Tickets to the event are FREE but advance reservations are required. Limited seating available. Reserve your tickets at https://www.springspreserve.org/events/?id=2419.
Crystal is a true Indigenous food warrior and the first Native woman to own a restaurant in Northern California. A member of the Kickapoo Nation of Oklahoma, Wahpepah grew up in and around the urban Indigenous communities of Oakland, where her Fruitvale Village restaurant, Wahpepah's Kitchen, reclaims Native foodways and connects guests to the vibrant, nourishing bounty of Native foods and intertribal cultures. By serving Kickapoo chili, Deer sticks and Three Sisters Salad among other Indigenous dishes, Crystal honors the land and waters and the sustenance they provide while creating community and helping her community heal.
Crystal is an inductee into the Native American Almanac, was a finalist for the James Beard Emerging Chef Award, and has appeared on Food Network's Chopped and Beating Bobby Flay. She serves as a U.S. State Department culinary ambassador and has catered for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and for the American Indian Film Festival. Her cookbook, A Feather and a Fork, is forthcoming from Rodale Books in October 2025.