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Coyote may run these lands, but Fox taught us how to set the table, so come sit down with us, Cousin. Here, we cook like our grandmothers taught us, with laughter in the kitchen, love in every dish, and just enough Coyote energy to keep you coming back for thirds.
Welcome, cousin.
Founded by kelsie kilawna (Marchand), a Rez girl raised by grandmas, aunties, and a fiercely supportive father, and the kind of kitchen-table teachings that live in your bones.
Smoke on the Plateau is not only catering, it’s a living enactment of sqilx’w food governance, where every dish carries the teachings of our Four Food Chiefs, skimxist (Black Bear), spitlem (Bitterroot), siya (Saskatoon), and ntytyix (Salmon). We don't engage with our Four Food Chiefs as an ingredient; they’re our leaders, our guides, and our oldest agreements with the land.
In the Okanagan, our food systems are our governance systems, and every bite renews our contract with Creation.
When you sit at our table, you’re not just a guest, you’re part of the system. You’re in relationship now.
Catering the
Feast
Smoke on the Plateau offers Indigenous catering rooted in sqilx'w food teachings, where each carefully crafted dish honours our seasonal food systems and governance teachings. Our culinary presentations thoughtfully reflect the stories of our people, transforming every event into both a dining experience and a meaningful connection to place and protocol.
Storytelling Feasts
Sit down experiences where every course comes with stories, a laugh, or a "…and that’s why Coyote’s not allowed to lead the fishing committee."
Learn how hunger is a call to remember, how feasting is a form of governance, and why our Elders say, "we don't truly die until the story stops being told."
(So consider this your edible resistance.)
Kinship Kitchen
At Smoke on the Plateau, we believe the land is our dining room and the fire is where kinship is born, with too much food, too many laughs, and plenty of space for the stories (and maybe a few tears), an experience of catered hosting and facilitating. In a space where strangers become relatives, one shared mismatched plate at a time.
This is where we offer custom gatherings where we cook, learn something, and eat good food together, an embodiement practice of what village life is supposed to be like.
Coyote's Mistake Menu
In this 3-hour interactive experience, strangers become cousins through shared chaos, sharing stories, and the universal language of "oops, I burned that." Blending hands-on cooking, trickster teachings, and fire-side conversation (yes, actual fire), we create the kind of intimacy only found in Rez kitchens and grandmas’ backyards.
Limited to 15-20 people because real connection needs room to breathe, and because Coyote can only cause so much trouble in one evening.
You’ll leave with:
• Cooking skills even Fox would approve of
• Stories that turn colleagues/strangers into kin
• The unshakable certainty that someone’s now your cousin
