The Living Archive is a developing collective digital and physical archive that is dedicated to the marginalized and largely oral native histories centered around food cultures and networks. It brings together indigenous cultural ephemera, traditions, and rituals that document and translate food, its networks, and cultures in and around the Global Majority.

Synthesizing books and cookbooks, zines, magazines, and market ephemera, photos, audio, and videos, cultural ephemera relating to table preparations, food rituals, recipes, or even the testimony of memories around food-making and its significance, the archive both situates food as a microcosm through which to document indigenous cultures, traditions, and interpersonal histories relating to land and community, and also serves as an emancipatory model for knowledge production, turning to oral histories as sources of verifiable truth and testimony. The Living Archive platforms the relationship between indigenous cultures, food, storytelling, and knowledge production, and is firmly invested in the documentation of these often overlooked histories as sources of both truth and fact.

As an open access archive, The Living Archive is committed to sustaining a community-led, independently-driven, and research-based framework, aiming to support critical engagement with native food cultures and networks, and to preserve the oral traditions and cultural ephemera of often overlooked, fragmented, and marginalized histories that are at risk of disappearing or that, by the monolith and myth of history's standards, have already disappeared.