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Olivia's Genealogy Site: Native American Food

This Web page is based on research of records known to be valid from State records, Federal records, manuscripts, and private papers. Food records of Natives.

FOODS OF NATIVE AMERICANS

Native Americans independently invented farming and their women were the first farmers in this country.
At the first sound of the whippoorwill in the spring, the Native Americans knew it was time for planting.
Did you know? Spring flowers are more apt to face south. Spiders make their webs face south if possible. The tips of evergreen trees usually point east.
Lo' the poor Indian! Whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds or hears him in the wind. Essay on Man--Pope
What a true saying it is "The appetite furnishes the best sauce"--Typee

*WILD BERRIES*		*WILD FRUIT*		*FISH*		*VEGETABLES*		*FOWL*
Blackberries Cranberries Gooseberries Elder Berries Raspberries Hackberries Strawberries Haws-red,black,yellow Huckleberries		Cherries Plums Currants Persimmons Grapes Pawpaws Maple sugar Crabapples		Abalone Mussels Eel Oysters Snails Clams Crayfish Crabs Frogs Salamanders Turtles		Artichokes Gourds Maize corn Melons Potatoes Pumpkins Squash Beans Tomatoes Sunflower seed Wild rice Mushrooms Toadstools Puff balls green Pig weed seed		Birds Bird eggs Wild duck Wild turkeys
*MEATS*	*NUTS*		*FLOWERS*		*LEAVES*		*PRAYERS*
Alligator Antelope Bear Beavers Buffalo Caribou Deer Elk Moose Rabbits Jack rabbits Goats Squirrels Raccoons Opossum Muskrats	Acorns Beechnuts Coconuts Coffee beans Hazel nuts Chestnuts Peanuts Pinon nuts Walnuts Hickory nuts Pecans Butternuts		Mayapple Violet leaves Honey locust Wildcrab apple Water lily Rue Anemone Sumac berry tea Solomans seal Trilium Primrose seed Spring Beauty Cattails Pigweed seeds Adders tongue		Beech Skunk cabbage Plant root Water cress Calamus		May the warm winds of heaven blow softly on this house. May the GREAT SPIRIT bless all who enter here. Here needy he stands, and I am he.

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