Posted on 04/14/2021 7:37:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
According to Allan Sherman they do. ;^)
There is an area near where I live called Indian Heaven. Lots of huckleberry fields and camas lilies grow wild (natives ate the roots). And historically wild salmon was plentiful.
Sounds good to me.
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Then there’s blubber, the favorite of the frigid Eskimo
King, Sockeye, and Coho salmon are all really good.
Keto salmon are the best.
It’s really neat because there are fairly recent (8k years ago!) lava flows to check out too. I want to go look for minerals in the rocks when the boy gets older.
It should have been obvious to any man of science that if humans settled in a place for any length of time that the food and other resources necessary for life had to be there in the abundance necessary for a substantial number of humans to survive.
Humans can not subsist on one food source or even a few food sources. If the natives were drying fish, which they would have to do if that was their primary protein source, there had to be ample other food stuffs available in the area.
People without the wheel can’t transport large stores of dried fish from one place to another.
I don’t see how anybody would overlook berries - delicious and plentiful.
There had to some source of vitamin C, to prevent scurvy.
Back in early 2000, the military took me to coastal Oregon for a TDY assignment, and during some of my free time I was able to tour Fort Clatsop where Lewis & Clark wintered from 1805-6. I remember looking over some of the journal entries and recall them logging how the troops in the expedition were bitching about the sustained diet of elk venison.
ancient indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest whose diet was once thought to be almost all salmon
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The quote above must have been made by some armchair scientist type who had never been to the PNW never read any of the many ethnobiology books which source from elderly tribal types interviewed from the early 1900s to the 1950s
No they did not live on salmon alone - one reason is that the Canadian tribes would hold their annual slave raids in the fall when the salmon were returning. They would take all the salmon hung up to dry by the locals. Survivors had to make do with tail ends of the runs.
There is literally hundreds of things that can be eaten in the forests and rivers of the Pac NW.
The locals ate lots of deer; and the plentiful varieties of berries which were mashed into balls and sun dried.
Interestingly, despite plentiful crab, clams and oysters, they would only be eaten in times of starvation.
“Interestingly, despite plentiful crab, clams and oysters, they would only be eaten in times of starvation”
Possibly because they didn’t have butter.
“Interestingly, despite plentiful crab, clams and oysters, they would only be eaten in times of starvation”
Possibly because they didn’t have butter.
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They didn’t have cows or goats they were so primitive. Speaking of which, the Skykomish were cannibals
Food and shelter were so plentiful that they had no incentive to rise above hunter gatherer life style - sort of like their modern reservation descendants. Every year they would hold potlaches where the people with a lot of goods would burn them to show how rich they were - sort of like their modern tribal ruling families
Yes this reeks of propaganda. The give away is the term “lean protein”. So yes that would be a fatal diet. But absolutely nobody attempts to survive that way. Fat is required. Wild game with a lot of fat is what hunter gatherers ate. Marrow eating was pretty common.
Vegetarian: Old Indian word meaning “Cannot Hunt or Fish”...............
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