I'm part Mi'kmaq but I wasn't raised in the culture. Grandma is from New Brunswick but moved to the States after WWII so my mom and I were born on this side of the arbitrary border line so we aren't registered or anything. I only know a handful of words in the language and I learned those online. That's awesome that you had that community. :)
Nutrient dense, yeah, that's probably why my feeling of it is "heavy". I was first lacto-ovo vegetarian and then vegan for over a decade, but I had to quit because it turns out I have so many food allergies. So I eat meat now but have never been one of those really meat-loving people who can eat a lot of it, lol. My body is way happier with it, though!
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I think that your body is just reacting because it desires the traditional food sources. There is so much that I like but a lot of it really is rough on my body.
And then I go home and start eating a bunch of traditional food and my body calms down for some reason.
Same thing with traditional medicine and healing practices. Those are more attentive to the patient's needs then Western medicine and just handing out pills are.
I've thought that too, like, my ancestry is Celtic and Mi'kmaq, so, everyone is around the 45th parallel or higher, we're all very north. And what does my body like? Meat - both hunter cultures - dairy - Celts were very big on dairy and cattle - and with a few exceptions, more root type veg - turnips, onions, sweet potatoes, and squash, apples, etc. Mostly very northern traditional foods (my main exceptions being coffee, chocolate, and tomatoes being in my diet regularly, lol, and I realize that sweet potato is from tropical places originally I think). Like there are some northern staples I still can't have, like nuts, which I have never liked anyway, but just so much of what my body does well with seems to be very old in the family tree kind of stuff. I can't even do most grains, and grains are pretty recent, human-ancestral-diet-wise. That bread roll I used is actually a cheat because I test allergic to wheat but in practice I rash only if it's whole wheat and don't if it's white.
I have had such terrible experiences with western medicine, and have tried whatever alternatives I could, but man I've never really had traditional medicine and I wonder if it wouldn't do me some real good. I've got some chronic issues that just lay me out.