At NANA Management Services (NMS), we are proud of our Alaska Native heritage and Iñupiat values. We know that traditional and Indigenous foods are essential to our way of life for our people and those we serve. Many sacred ingredients are wild harvested and unavailable to purchase, like seal, caribou, moose, bison, wild blueberries, salmon heads, and salmon eggs. Niqipiaq is the name of our program for source ingredients like these needed to produce our Deliciously Indigenous menus. Through food, we help heal, one bite at a time.
Our Deliciously Indigenous and Niqipiaq programs ground our services in who we are and provide excellence in culinary experiences. Our menus feature seasonal moose or caribou stew and wild Alaska salmon, salads with beach greens and fresh herring eggs or smoked salmon bellies, and wild berry cobbler—foods that look and smell and taste like home for all Alaskans.
A new Traditional Foods Donation Program from NMS helps provide real food for all Alaskans.
DONATION WISH LIST
FOODS WE’RE COLLECTING
GAME: bison, caribou, deer, moose, musk ox, seal, bird eggs in season
PLANTS: beach asparagus, beach greens, chickweed, cow parsnip, fiddlehead ferns, fireweed, pineapple weed, spruce tips, stink weed
SEAWEED: black seaweed, bladder wrack, bull kelp
WILD BERRIES: blueberries, cloudberries, crowberries, salmonberries, high and lowbush cranberries
WILD FISH: black and Pacific cod, halibut, herring eggs, hooligan, rockfish, sheefish, salmon, including bellies, eggs, and heads
LOCAL ALASKA: carrots, crab apples, potatoes, rhubarb
All donations must be ethically and legally harvested. Donations must be fresh or frozen, free of parasites, and cooled to prevent deterioration and bacteria growth. Fish and Game donations must be whole, gutted or gilled, field-dressed, and in quarters or roasts. A Transfer of Possession Form is required for all game, including hunting license information.
Please email [email protected] or call 907.575.3486
