Tribal school lunches - Montana

[peacetraveler22]

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[genka8]

Soviet propaganda always implied that the Indian reservations were akin to the concentration camps, and that the Indians were forcibly moved there and prohibited from living anywhere else.

[peacetraveler22]

That's why I went to visit the reservation, to understand for myself and show others how Native Americans now live. I learned a lot. :) Hopefully I can write the report this weekend. They can live, or work, wherever they want. Same as all Americans.

[logofilka]

Keep in mind that mentally Native American tribes of North are very different from the ones populating Arizona and New Mexico.

[peacetraveler22]

In what way?

[creaze]

> Perhaps this is the case in Russian, but in English this word has no negative connotation

Oh really? Can i call negroes negroes then in your comments?

[peacetraveler22]

You can call them whatever you want, but you sound like an idiot if you use this term in America. Like you're still a slave master on the plantation. :)

[whiteeye]

And in Rusisan negroes are just black people:)) So, these differences we have.

[peacetraveler22]

In Russian, the term "nigger" also seems acceptable but here it's an offensive term.

[logofilka]

Looks like a decent food, but I doubt that kids in reservation enjoy it. From my observation, public and Indian schools usually offer fries/burger/pizza/pasta kind of meal, especially, if they provide subsidized lunches. My kids are attending a charter school now, and it is slightly different: they have ethnic food assigned to each day of the month, with some repeats. Chinese, Greek, Mexican, Japanese, Italian, Indian, All-American (meaning bbq chicken and burgers, usually), etc. These lunches are catered by local restaurants, so school does not cook anything. We pick up the days and pre-pay on-line, and on other days 9let's say, if it is "taco Tuesday") they bring their own lunches. We are blessed with a very diverse student body, so nobody treats you like a weirdo, if you eat buckwheat or pirogi.

[peacetraveler22]

I guess the menu varies each day, but on this reservation that had a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables. This is true even of the commodities building I visited, where they ration out food for the tribal members each month. I need to visit my nephew's school one day for lunch. I think healthy options always exist, it's just a matter of whether a kid will pick them. If they are faced with pizza, burgers or some other junk food, most will pick that over a salad.

[logofilka]

I am truly blessed with kids who would naturally pick a salad. :)

[j1980]

Иногда в столовке разнообразней питаешься, чем дома.

ава ок

[creaze]

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[romanklimenko]

My school cafeteria memories are horrible. In a last decade of USSR existence we had disgusting cold sweet tea and two days old bun with piece of some pastrami parody. Most of my childhood memories are clear from negative episodes. But I still recall with disgust that cafeterias.

[peacetraveler22]

This does not sound tasty. You did not have hot soup or buckwheat? :))

[romanklimenko]

Now I recall there was some horrible imitation of soup from pickled cucumbers. But I never took a risk :)