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30 Νοε 2020 · 1. Pre-Contact Foods and the Ancestral Diet. The variety of cultivated and wild foods eaten before contact with Europeans was as vast and variable as the regions where indigenous people lived....
1 Νοε 2021 · When Christopher Columbus reached the Americas, he hoped the land would be rich with gold, silver and precious spices, but perhaps the New World’s greatest treasure was its bounty of native food...
1 Σεπ 2016 · When Europeans arrived, the Native Americans had already developed new varieties of corn, beans, and squashes and had an abundant supply of nutritious food. The foods of the Native Americans are widely consumed and their culinary skills still enrich the diets of nearly all people of the world today.
10 Δεκ 2020 · In a recent article for History, History on a Plate: How Native American Diets Shifted After European Colonization, she discusses the signficant changes in native diets over time that have had health and cultural impacts on native communities.
History of Native Food Systems. For thousands of years before European contact in the Americas, Native communities had complex food systems that sustained their families and their communities. These food systems were versatile and Native people adapted them to different regions and ecologies, while expanding their knowledge of food variety to ...
Contemporary Native peoples retain a varied culture of traditional foods, along with the addition of some post-contact foods that have become customary and even iconic of present-day Indigenous American social gatherings (for example, frybread).
Many Native food systems were disrupted due to European settlement and the displacement of Native peoples from their lands. Then, for over a hundred years, the U.S. government issued foodstuffs to Native Americans. The food was unhealthy and substantially different from traditional diets.
