Native American Culture - Food

     After reading few articles regarding Native American culture and food, this certain type of cuisine is being restored and explored. The Sioux Chef is a team of chefs and food lovers that are attempting to revive the Native American cuisine and change the common view of food in North America. They do this in a way that is highlighting the significant culinary culture buried within Native American history. Sean Sherman is the CEO and founder of this organization, as he studies techniques of farming, hunting, fishing, and preservation during this era. He opened this business in 2014 and continues his goal of making this cuisine more accessible and understood.
Sean Sherman of The Sioux Chef
     There were different types of Native American tribes depending on what food they ate. According to Native-language.org , some semi-nomadic tribes travelled frequently and constantly hunted for food, while some agricultural tribes stay on the same land for a while and farm there. The four ways of finding food were all put to work by Native Americans, being hunting and fishing, gathering, farming, and raising domesticated animals. Hunting mainly consisted of following herds of bison and caribou, and fishing was done using many different techniques or tools, like bows and arrows, spears, harpoons, fish-hooks, and blowguns. The most important food crop in this community was "Indian corn", or maize. Animals that were able to be domesticated were not very abundant in North America originally, being turkeys, ducks, and dogs. 
     An article on Indians.org states that there are three staples of Native American Food, these being for, squash, and beans. These were very common components to the meals of a Native American, as well as greens, deer meat, rice, pumpkin, and berries on some occasions. The commonality of these foods are based on the accessibility to it and abundance. Corn is such a large staple in North American cuisine that not only does it get used very frequently in everyday dishes, but it is also sometimes ground into flour that can be used to make tortillas. Other than these staples, Native Americans were very skilled in concocting teas using herbs like peppermint, spearmint, clover, sage, and rosehips. These were some of the first sources of medicine that existed descending from foods.
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"Indian Corn" or Maize

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