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Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide (No Front Cover Attached) by Kelly Kindscher; drawings by Carol Kuhn is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Long before sunflower seeds became a popular snack food, they were a foodstuff valued by Native Americans. for some 10,000 years, from the end of the Pleistocene to the 1800s, the indigenous peoples of the plains regarded edible native plants, like the sunflower, as an important source of food. Not only did plants provide sustenance during times of scarcity, but they also added variety to what otherwise would have been a monotonous diet of game. Nevertheless, the use of native plants as food sharply declined when white men settled the Great Plains and imposed their own culture with its differing notions of what was fit to eat. Those notions tended to exclude from the accepted diet such plants as soapweed, lambsquarter, ground cherry, prairie turnip, and prickly pear. Today it is strange to think of eating chokecherries, which were a key ingredient in that staple of the Indian diet, pemmican. Based on plant lore documented by historical and archaeological evidence, Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie relates how 122 plant species were once used as food by the native and immigrant residents on the prairie. Written for a broad audience of amateur naturalists, botanists, ethnologis

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Author

Kelly Kindscher; drawings by Carol Kuhn

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700603251

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Stem