Indigenous Food Sovereignty Dinner with Chef Loretta Oden

Chef Loretta Barrett Oden (Potawatomi), is an Emmy Award-winning Native American chef, food writer, TV host, and Native foods historian. Author of Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine, host of the PBS series Seasoned With Spirit: A Native Cook’s Journey, columnist for Native Peoples Magazine, and chef consultant for the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, Chef Oden is a highly-accomplished chef who has been featured on “Good Morning America” and “The Today Show,” among others.

As a founding Council member of the nonprofit Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, Chef Oden learned about food and cooking from her mother, grandmothers, and aunts as a child. She and her son, the late Chef Clayton Oden, opened Corn Dance Café in Santa Fe, NM in the later 1990s. Chef Oden now focuses much of her time on traveling across the U.S. to educate and introduce audiences “to a world of indigenous food knowledge, tastes and culture.”

Chef Oden will serve a 3 course dinner while discussing her process, ingredients, and inspiration, with a Q&A and book signing of Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine to follow.

Ticket levels (all tickets include free parking in our underground garage):

1. Foodie- 3 course meal
2. Gastronomist- 3 course meal and a signed copy of Chef Oden's cookbook
3. VIP- 3 course meal with optimal seating, a 30 minute meet & greet with Chef Oden before dinner, and a signed copy of her cookbook

Please email [email protected] for any allergy/dietary restrictions. Please note that due to a limited menu, we may not be able to accomodate all requests.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Eiteljorg Museum, 500 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, United States