how come there are no native Indian restaurants?

[Vdubchaos]

I stand by my statement. You don't want to GIVE them a name and then TAKE it away. That'd make you an Indian Giver.

Like I said, I have serious RESERVATIONS about giving them another name...

So you stand by stupidity that has been drilled into your head over the years.

You take it

I question it, cause it simply doesn't make any sense.

Our "colonialists" made a mistake and labeled these people as those from half way around the globe....due to their ignorance....and few hundred years later they never changed/got rid of it......due to their arrogance.

 

[manimal]

lets make one up right now!


Lets call it Feathers!


It would be themed like a American indian Hooters. The customers get big discounts if they pay with Wampum!

 

[IronWing]

So you stand by stupidity that has been drilled into your head over the years.

You take it

I question it, cause it simply doesn't make any sense.

Our "colonialists" made a mistake and labeled these people as those from half way around the globe....due to their ignorance....and few hundred years later they never changed/got rid of it......due to their arrogance.

In Arizona we have the Tohono O'odham nation. Until the early 1990s they were called the Papago nation. Turns out they never really liked the term Papago and so changed their name to what they had always called themselves. Guess who still calls them the Papago? The U.S. government.

 

[Vdubchaos]

In Arizona we have the Tohono O'odham nation. Until the early 1990s they were called the Papago nation. Turns out they never really liked the term Papago and so changed their name to what they had always called themselves. Guess who still calls them the Papago? The U.S. government.

Right

And look at the top of the page, they still call them Indians too.



Look I understand these terms are here to stay, I'm just saying it's completely stupid to mislabel/make a mistake......know that you made a mistake......but still continue call the people you mislabeled the same name.

It's like if I was to say Chevy is a Ford, then figure out I made a mistake but still label Chevy for every Ford I see.

Hope you understand.

 

[OutHouse]

http://www.tocabe.com/

Tocabe first opened its doors in December 2008. Tocabe is the only American Indian owned and operated restaurant in Metro Denver.

tasty food here (been many times) but about as native american as american chinese food.


bottom line is if you eat smoked fish, dried buffalo, deer, rabbit.. and drink water you have experienced the "authentic" american Indian food.

 

[Cerb]

The real answer is that government incentives for other types of business ventures discourage that particular type of business venture for native Americans.

Also, practically none of them have any traditional food culture left. To most, fry bread is as traditional as it gets, and that's unhealthy ration food from the white man, anyway.

 

[OutHouse]

fry bread is as traditional as it gets, and that's unhealthy ration food from the white man, anyway.

yes but holy fuck it it good.

 

[angminas]

I stand by my statement. You don't want to GIVE them a name and then TAKE it away. That'd make you an Indian Giver.

Like I said, I have serious RESERVATIONS about giving them another name...

*I* laughed.

 

[IronWing]

One issue is that opening small businesses on a res is very difficult as capital is scarce. When you can't get a mortage or offer property as collateral (property is held by the government in trust), loans are hard to come by. You end up with an economy with all the problems of communism w/o the benefits.

 

[brainhulk]

I would have serious reservations about trying to label a people so long after they had already been 'given' a name. Don't try to give them something and take it back...that would umm...be wrong...?

LMAO

 

[Remobz]

The only reason Native Americans got the stupid name "Indians" is because some silly Europeans remarked how they resemble dot Indians and the name stuck.

I would never call them Indians out of respect.

 

[Ichinisan]

The only reason Native Americans got the stupid name "Indians" is because some silly Europeans remarked how they resemble dot Indians and the name stuck.

I would never call them Indians out of respect.

That's not it.

I've always heard it was because Columbus thought he was sailing for India.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Much traditional Native American food is bland stuff.

 

[Thebobo]

had Succotash so many times as a kid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succotash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_cuisine

 

[IronWing]

had Succotash so many times as a kid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succotash

Poor child, you must have suffered terribly.

 

[Eug]

I had hot rabbit stew from a native food booth at a food fair. Does that count?

 

[norseamd]

There is a restaurant at the Crazy Horse Memorial which does serve some food that is somewhat Amerindian as cultural food. They have frybread, Amerindian tacos, and Bison burgers as some other food.

 

[Carson Dyle]

had Succotash so many times as a kid

I LOVE succotash. Probably have it at least twice a week. I don't get too elaborate, though, just corn and lima beans.

 

[CZroe]

Most Native American food became modern American and Mexican food, like turkey, corn, Bison, succotash, cornbread, popcorn, chili, etc. Passenger Pigeons are extinct now, so there's also that, but it was modern food then even though the abundance meant it was considered cheap slave food.

Venison, rabbit, and local varieties of bass, catfish, crappie, etc are common in rural areas where people still hunt and fish. Bison is increasingly popular at American restaurants and steakhouses.

There's your answer, OP. Any questions remaining?

 

[futurefields]

nobody wants to pay to sit around chewing dried meat and berries for an hour

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

nobody wants to pay to sit around chewing fire Cheetos and Mountain Dew for an hour

FTFY