Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods

by Michelene E. Pesantubbee (Editor), Michael J. Zogry (Editor)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438482637
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	03/01/2021
Series:	SUNY series, Native Traces
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.

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

Editorial Reviews

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

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