Wild Rice Ice Cream:

Ingredients:

80 grams (¼ cup) cooked wild rice

50 grams (¼ cup) coconut sugar (or agave syrup)

120 ml almond milk

1 x 15 ounce cans full fat coconut milk, (*Set ½ cup of this milk aside in a small bowl.)

2 tbsp cornstarch

Directions:

1. In a blender, combine seconds. Set aside.

2. Place coconut milk the remaining ½ cup ar and syrup along minutes.

3. After 2-3 minutes, add the wild rice mixture to mix until mixture over an ice water allow to sit overnight

4. Place ice cream

5. The next day, attach making device, follow mixture into the ice tency is reached.

6. Place into a plastic overnight is best.

7. Serve as desired.

Alternative Options

1. Regarding sugars tives. Honey would be a little overpowering

2. Wild Rice - feel free cook wild rice in coconut rice in a pan or in the flavor and aroma.

3. Don't be afraid to ing the coconut milk.

4. But most importantly, combine the coconut sugar, cooked wild rice, and almond milk. Puree for 10-15 aside. milk ( minus the ½ cup) in a medium saucepan. Combine the cornstarch with cup coconut milk and mix to dissolve, set aside. From here, add the maple sugalong with vanilla into the pot and mix, turn to medium low heat and warm for two minutes, re-mix cornstarch mixture and add it to the coconut milk in the pot. Then mixture as well and continue on medium low to medium heat and continue mixture thickens. Roughly 10 min. Strain mixture through a strainer into a bowl placed bath. Continue to mix until cooled completely. Place in a ziplock bag and overnight in the refrigerator. cream attachment into the freezer and freeze overnight. attach ice cream attachment to your stand mixer or if using another icecream follow the manufacturer's directions. Turn on and while running, gradually pour ice cream maker. Allow to churn and mix for 10-15 min or until soft serve consisplastic container, cover with plastic wrap and freeze for 4 hours minimum but desired.

& Ideas: sugars alternatives - feel free to experiment, agave, coconut, maple are all great alternawould be great as well but perhaps used as only one substitute, the flavor of honey could overpowering OR a great idea for Honey Wild Rice Ice Cream? free to double up on the pre cooked rice if you like. Alternatively, you could also coconut milk to help deepen the flavor of the wild rice. Also, you could toast the wild the oven as well to heighten and change the flavor as well. Giving a bit of a nutty to experiment and add additional flavorings. Chocolate can be melted when heatmilk. Nuts or toasted seeds folded in at the end before freezing in the freezer. importantly, have fun!

Now that we’ve had a snack lets hop right into our next topic; Cattails! When it comes to this conversation we have numerous entry points, from ceremonial to foodways to tribal names. For instance the Fallon Paiute and Shoshone Tribe are actually known as the Toi-Ticutta; The Cattail Eaters. While the territory they occupy, historically and currently, in modern day Nevada and California is recognized today for being desert that wasn’t always the case. Marshlands and lakes once flourished here prior to colonization and their remaining food and water ways are constantly under attack. to the nearby Naval Air Base where bombing exercises destroyed the tribe’s sacred Medicine Rock, a place where medicinal plants were harvested, they are experiencing continued warfare against their people, land, and water, just as their relatives to the south, The Nüümü (Owens Valley Paiute). In the movie PAYA: The Water Story of the Paiute we learn “the untold story of America’s longest-lived water war between the Owens Valley Paiute and the City of Los Angeles” and about the large scale aquaculture systems they once cultivated but, with an enforced land base of just 279.08 acres, the maintenance of those ways is under constant threat.

We can hear you asking, “What about the cattails though?”, and we’re here to say that it’s a nuanced story to tell. Unlike the previous “foods” we discussed, this one actually carries a varied cosmology between tribes and in respect to this we won’t be offering a recipe. What does that mean? It speaks to the many varying protocols within tribes, which when it comes to food and medicine are endless, so we invite you to honor this with us. As we recognized with the ToiTicutta, eating cattails is woven into their very being, so shall we recognize our Apache relatives' use of it in prayer and abstinence from consuming them, but we definitely invite you to study more about them.

And last but not least!

To all of the Water Protectors out there we dedicate this issue to you!!! From ongoing fights like the Tiny House Warriors Menominee River and on to battles won like Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay you.