See two films on indigenous food preparation and cooking at our Friday afternoon matinee, ending just in time for the Holiday lights to come on

Hurricane Coffee at the River will be open 9 a.m.-7 p.m. with special holiday drinks such as pumpkin spice lattes and toasted marshmallow hot chocolate

Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River's Edge and Return of the Buffalo

Fri., Dec. 8

2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

$5 per person

Registration required, please click here

Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River's Edge

Native American chef Loretta Barret Oden travels to the Yurok Reservation on the banks of the Klamath River on California's Pacific Coast where they harvest salmon, shellfish, seaweed, acorns and edible wild greens. She learns how to prepare alderwood-smoked salmon, dried surf fish and eels, and sturgeon egg bread.

Seasoned with Spirit Return of the Buffalo

Native American chef Loretta Barrett Oden travels to the buffalo range of Fred Dubray on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota to learn about the movement among tribes to bring the buffalo back to the Great Plains in order to promote cultural enhancement, spiritual revitalization, ecological restoration and economic development.

Oden learns how to make traditional recipes including sun-dried bison with chokecherries, chokecherry soup, and grilled bison tenderloin with a sage-chokecherry jus.