Food and Nutrition
Aboriginal Food Notes typed
Aboriginal People
-The blackfoot people lived in central and southern Alberta.
-many lived around the blackfoot and in Saskatchewan
-Buffalo meat to pemmican
-Pemmican - a dried meat, fat, and berries
-ate dried fish and buffalo
-known for eating the buffalo meat and utilizing the remaining parts for other uses
Inuit People
-Where: Arctic region, East Labrador, West Yukon
-Summer: Caribou, birds, berries, wild green
-Winter: Walrus, seal, whales
-Significance: lived in challenging conditions and learned to be self sufficient
Aboriginal people of the Mackenzie River
-Yukon river in Yellowknife and Yukon
Faming: Hunted caribous and buffalos and small fishes
Significance: beer given respect. Lynx, wolves, and wolverine ceremonial significance
Unknown Tribe
-Lived off the river and seas
-used natural resources available
-knew to preserve food for long winters
-10 diff languages distinct with culture
-Woodlands, plains, plateaus, pacific coast, Mackenzie Yukon River, Inuit
-health very important
-healthy body, mind, and spirit
-don’t waste food
-large social gatherings
-Bannock
-Bacon, Corn Bread
-Buffalo Jerky
-Rabbit soup
Woodlands Southern Ontario
-Southern Ontario
-15 types of corn, beans, cucumbers, melons, and squash
-knowledge of plant breeding, fertilization, and seeding
-good farmers
-many vegetarians
-respected the maple trees
Woodlands Eastern Ontario
-Fish/hunting
-Corn
-Potatoes
-Fruits and veggies
-wild berries
-86 types of corn
Pacific Natives People
-Pacific coast aboriginal people
-5 settlements mainly around Queen Charlotte’s Island and Vancouver
-Farmed Berries, raspberries, salmon berries, blue berries, huckleberries, and elderberries
-Fished a lot
-non-nomadic, developed complex communities
Plains people 2
-East of Rocky Mountains and in central southern America
-Nomadic, hunted buffalo
-used buffalo for food, clothing and utensil tools
-farmed fruits, berries, dandelion, cambiums, rose chips, huckleberries, wild raspberries, crabapples
-significant importance to traditional aboriginal ceremonies and culture
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