Acorn cakes, bannock, milkweed soup, sofkee, fried yucca petals and Spicewood tea. This food was, and for some still is, staples for indigenous peoples throughout North America. This book presents a small sample of recipes from tribes across the continent, Inuit, Apache, Choctaw, Cherokee, Yupik, Coquille, Odawa, Cheyenne, Oneida, Cree, Crow and Ojibwe are some of the tribes represented in this book. From Alaska to Florida, New York to New Mexico and across Canada, these first nations truly lived off the land. Previous generations have kept this knowledge alive, protected it and passed it on to us.
