Friends of History Lecture Series Making It Matter Again: Exploring our Roots, Including Life Way, Food Ways, and Our Future

For three months in 2013, Swentzell and thirteen other Pueblo volunteers ate only the foods available to their ancestors before first contact with Europeans in 1540.  They started with the idea that Pueblo people had adapted over countless generations to the foods available in their local environment.  But now, the imported and processed foods in modern diets means  “our food is like we are living in a foreign country.”  In her talk, Swentzell will recount the dramatic results of this experiment on the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the participants.