Posted on Nov 6, 2022
Superabundant dispatch: Exploring the Northwest’s Indigenous foods
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"November is Indigenous People’s Month, and this gives us a beautiful chance to reflect on the ways that Indigenous foods continue to define our region’s culinary landscape. The foods that the Northwest is known for — salmon, berries and hazelnuts — are the same foods that sustained people here 10,000 years ago. Indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest had so much bounty around them that they never needed to develop agriculture like people in other parts of the country, but there’s new evidence that a sort of farming did take place here. What was it? Read on to find out!"
Superabundant dispatch: Exploring the Northwest’s Indigenous foods
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Food/Chow
Native Americans
Farming
Agriculture
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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My people survived on namæw (sturgeon) and manōmæh (wild rice), and were never hungry. It's why the Dakota people wanted to take that land, but they were never strong enough to do so.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Thanks for the post. Superabudnat is a good description, too.
"Native women tended their huckleberry patches in mountain foothills". That's a fact <smile>
My Aunt used to take us to her grandmother's Huckleberrie patch each year. It was up the hill from Plummer (Coeur d'Alene tribe). The bears liked the Huckleberries as much as we did., so we always had to be on the lookout for them.
In the Seattle area, back in the 50's, it was still possible to find wild hazlenut trees on vacant wooded lots, and blackberrry brambles were prolific, so were blackberrie pies throughout the season. Back in the Lake Coeur d'Alene area Grandma had a small orchard of Crabapples which always ended up in Crabapple Jelly and Apple Butter. The native pink wild rose grew in front of the cellar next to the house. I do not recall eating rose petals but they are edible.
"Native women tended their huckleberry patches in mountain foothills". That's a fact <smile>
My Aunt used to take us to her grandmother's Huckleberrie patch each year. It was up the hill from Plummer (Coeur d'Alene tribe). The bears liked the Huckleberries as much as we did., so we always had to be on the lookout for them.
In the Seattle area, back in the 50's, it was still possible to find wild hazlenut trees on vacant wooded lots, and blackberrry brambles were prolific, so were blackberrie pies throughout the season. Back in the Lake Coeur d'Alene area Grandma had a small orchard of Crabapples which always ended up in Crabapple Jelly and Apple Butter. The native pink wild rose grew in front of the cellar next to the house. I do not recall eating rose petals but they are edible.
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