Native foodways : indigenous North American religious traditions and foods
Publication Information
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Physical Description
ix, 228 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures"--
"Native Foodways is the first scholarly collection of essays devoted exclusively to the interplay of Indigenous religious traditions and foodways in North America. Drawing on diverse methodologies, the essays discuss significant confluences in selected examples of these religious traditions and foodways, providing rich individual case studies informed by relevant historical, ethnographic, and comparative data. Many of the essays demonstrate how narrative and active elements of selected Indigenous North American religious traditions have provided templates for interactive relationships with particular animals and plants, rooted in detailed information about their local environments. In return, these animals and plants have provided these Native American communities with sustenance. Other essays provide analyses of additional contemporary and historical North American Indigenous foodways while also addressing issues of tradition and cultural change. Scholars and other readers interested in ecology, climate change, world hunger, colonization, religious studies, and cultural studies will find this book to be a valuable resource."--Page 4 of cover
Contents
- Introduction / Balance and a Bean: Revitalizing Himdag through Traditional Farming and Sacred Knowledge / Of Coyotes and Culverts: Salmon and the People of Mid-Columbia River / Where Food Grows on the Water: Manoomin/Wild Rice and Anishinaabe Peoplehood / Harvesting Wild Rice / They Call Us "Caribou Eaters": Negotiating Tłı̨chǫ Dene Relationships with Caribou / Bringing a Berry Back from the Land of the Dead: Coast Salish Huckleberry Cultivation and Food Sovereignty / Black Drink throughout Cherokee History / Semiotics of Resistance: on the Power of Frybread / Epilogue