Overview

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.

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Author:   Michelene E. Pesantubbee ,  Michael J. Zogry
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438482613

ISBN 10:   1438482612
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   01 March 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction Michael J. Zogry 1. Balance and a Bean: Revitalizing Himdag through Traditional Farming and Sacred Knowledge Andrea McComb Sanchez 2. Of Coyotes and Culverts: Salmon and the People of the Mid-Columbia River Suzanne Crawford O'Brien 3. Where Food Grows on the Water: Manoomin/Wild Rice and Anishinaabe Peoplehood Michael D. McNally 4. Harvesting Wild Rice Lawrence W. Gross 5. They Call Us ""Caribou Eaters"": Negotiating Tłįcho Dene Relationships with Caribou David S. Walsh 6. Bringing a Berry Back from the Land of the Dead: Coast Salish Huckleberry Cultivation and Food Sovereignty Suzanne Crawford O'Brien and Kimberly Wogahn 7. The Black Drink throughout Cherokee History R. Alfred Vick 8. The Semiotics of Resistance: On the Power of Frybread Dennis Kelley Epilogue Michelene E. Pesantubbee Contributors Index"

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This readable book will be of use to scholars of food, religion, indigenous studies, and more. - CHOICE

Author Information

Michelene E. Pesantubbee is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa and author of Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast. Michael J. Zogry is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas and author of Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game: At the Center of Ceremony and Identity.

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