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Title Native foodways : indigenous North American religious traditions and foods / edited by Michelene E. Pesantubbee and Michael J. Zogry.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 228 pages).
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Series SUNY series, Native Traces
Native traces.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1 Balance and a Bean: Revitalizing Himdag through Traditional Farming and Sacred Knowledge -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Of Coyotes and Culverts: Salmon and the People of the Mid-Columbia River -- Act One: Coyote and Creation -- Act Two: Coyote Learns the Rules -- Act Three: Coyote Steals the Salmon -- Act Four: Coyote Frees the Salmon -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Where Food Grows on the Water: Manoomin/Wild Rice and Anishinaabe Peoplehood -- Introduction -- Narrative -- Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Valuing
Sacred Community -- Ritual -- Manoomin as Ritual Food -- Ritualized Harvest -- History -- Interruptions and Reaffirmations of Relationship -- Continued Threats to Wild Rice -- Wild Rice Activism and Food Sovereignty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Harvesting Wild Rice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 They Call Us "Caribou Eaters": Negotiating Tłįchǫ Dene Relationships with Caribou -- Tłįchǫ Dene Caribou Hunting and Restrictions -- Dene Responses to Hunting Restrictions -- Previous Hunting Restrictions and Dene Responses -- Dene Responses to the Caribou -- Notes -- Bibliography
6 Bringing a Berry Back from the Land of the Dead: Coast Salish Huckleberry Cultivation and Food Sovereignty -- Swədaʔx̌ali: The Place of Mountain Huckleberry -- Huckleberries in Coast Salish Religious Traditions -- "Listening to the Plant People": Relationships with Plants in Coast Salish Cultures -- Not Your Hipster's Huckleberry: Food Sovereignty and the Alternative Food Movement -- Back to Whose Land? -- Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Regaining the Right to Native Foods -- Food Sovereignty versus Food Security: Moving toward a Coast Salish Ethos
"Every Time I Pick a Berry I Remember My Ancestors" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The Black Drink throughout Cherokee History -- Introduction -- Yaupon Holly Botany -- Black Drink History -- Western Cherokees -- Eastern Cherokees -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 The Semiotics of Resistance: On the Power of Frybread -- Food and Tradition -- Frybread: One Very Brief History -- Frybread as Sign -- Fancy Dancing and "Navajo Tacos" -- Social Power and Commodity Foods -- For What It's Worth: My Frybread Recipe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors
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Subject Indians of North America -- Food.
Indians of North America -- Food.
Food -- North America -- Religious aspects.
Food.
North America.
Food -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Pesantubbee, Michelene E., 1953- editor.
Zogry, Michael J., 1966- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Native foodways Albany : State University of New York, [2021] 9781438482613 (DLC) 2020045651
ISBN 9781438482637 electronic book
1438482639 electronic book
9781438482613 hardcover