A California social media influencer is facing backlash for having a “decolonized Christmas” as she bucks traditional foods and presents for native and indigenous recipes and gifts.

Elise Bonilla-Myers, who goes by “glutenfree_girlfriend” on social media shared tips to her TikTok and Substack subscribers on the ways she is “decolonizing” this holiday season.

She shared different recipes to her social media accounts that were gluten-free because “wheat, barley and rye are not native to the Americas.”

Bonilla-Myers said “the perfect Christmas cookie” is griddle masa made from a form of corn flour mixed with lime or culinary ash, and “its nutrients become more bioavailable and it becomes more tender.”

The rounded dough were sweetened with honey, then placed on a frying pan and grilled til

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