Piki maker (from Edward Curtis, 1907, The North American Indian; Vol.12). Piki is cornbread baked in colored sheets of paper-like thinness. The batter is spread on the baking stone with the bare hand, and the quickly baked sheet is folded and laid on the basket at the baker's left (United States Library of Congress)

FOOD AND CULTURE

Indigenous Peoples of North America

Abler T (1980) Iroquois Cannibalism: Fact Not Fiction. Ethnohistory. 27:309-Recommended -- click for details316 [cannibalism; North American Indian; Iroquois].

Balls E (1989) Early Uses of California Plants. University of California Press [food species; North American Indians; California].

Barsh R (1999) Chronic Health Effects of Dispossession and Dietary Change: Lesson from North American Hunter-Gatherers. Medical Anthropology. 18(2):135- [dietary change; nutrition and health; North American Indians].

Bishop C (1975) Northern Algonkian Cannibalism and Windigo Psychosis. in T Williams (ed) Psychological Anthropology [famine; cannibalism; windigo; North American Indians; Algonkian].

Bishop C (1978) Cultural and Biological Adaptations to Deprivation: The Northern Ojibwa Case. in C Laughlin; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 208-230 [famine; starvation; social relations; North American Indians; Ojibwa].

Borre K (1991) Seal Blood, Inuit Blood, and Diet: A Biocultural Model of Physiology and Cultural Identity. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 5:48-62 [food selection; subsistence hunters; native North America].

Bourke JG (1885) The Urine Dance of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico [food use; ritual; North American Indian; Zuni].

Carr LG (1943) Survival Foods of the American Aborigine. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 19:845-847 [famine; food habits; North American Indians].

Carter-Bachman K; Duncan R; Pelican S (1998) Navajo Food Practices, Customs, and Holidays. American Dietetic Association, American Diabetes Association [North American Indians; Navajo (Navaho)].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsCodere H (1950) Fighting with Property: A Study of Kwakiutl Potlatching and Warfare. American Ethnological Society [feast; food redistribution; North American Indian; Kwakiutl].

Comer J (2000) North America from 1492 to the Present. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1304-1323 [history; foodways; modernization; commercialization; North America; North American Indians].

Cove J (1978) Survival or Extinction: Reflections on the Problem of Famine in Tsimshian and Kaguru Mythology. in C Laughlin; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. Columbia University Press, pp. 231-244 [starvation; mythology; North American Indian; Africa; Tsimshian; Kuguru].

Crawly C; Evert A; Holzmeister LA, et al. (1998) Alaska Native Food Practices, Customs, and Holidays. American Dietetic Association, American Diabetes Association [North American Indian and Inuit; Alaska; Eskimo; Athabaskan].

Crosby AW (1972) The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Greenwood Press [history; diffusion of plants, animals; North American Indians; Europe].

Crosby AW (1986) Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge University Press [history; diffusion of plants, animals; food systems; North America; North American Indians].

Cushing FH (1920) Zuni Breadstuffs. Museum of American Indian [maize; myth; North American Indian].

Dillinger TL; Jett SC; Macri MJ, et al. (1999) Feast of Famine? Supplement Food Programs and Their Impacts on Two American Indian Communities in California. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 50:173- [food system assistance; United States; California; North American Indians].

Draper HH (1977) The Aboriginal Eskimo Diet in Modern Perspective. American Anthropologist. 79:309-316 [dietary patterns; North America; Recommended -- click for detailsInuit (Eskimo)].

Draper HH; Bell RR (1972) The Changing Eskimo Diet. Illinois Research. 14:14-15 [acculturation; North America, indigenous peoples; Inuit].

Edaakie R (1999) Idonapshe Let's Eat: Traditional Zuni Foods. Zuni Ashiwi [cookery; food habits; North American Indians; Zuni].

Ford R (1972) An Ecological Perspective on the Eastern Pueblos. in A Ortiz (ed) New Perspectives on the Pueblos [ecology; ritual; conflict; fighting with food; North American Indians; Eastern Pueblos].

Four Winds Food S (1998) Population Profile: Cherokee Indians. Fork, Fingers, and Chopsticks. II:3-6 [food habits; North American Indians; Cherokee].

Four Winds Food S (2001) Population Profile: Dakota Indians. Fork, Fingers, & Chopsticks. V:3-6 [foodways; diet; North American Indians; Dakota].

Gittelsohn J; White J (2000) Food Perceptions and Dietary Behavior of American-Indian Children, Their Caregivers, and Educators: Formative Assessment Findings from Pathways. Journal of Nutritional Education. 32:2- [North American Indians].

Gittelsohn J; Wolever T; Zinman B (1998) Specific Patterns of Food Consumption and Preparation Are Associated with Diabetes and Obesity in a Native Canadian Community. The Journal of Nutrition. 128 [nutrtional disease; North American Indians; Canada].

Gonzague Bd; Receveur O; Kuhnlein H (1999) Dietary Intake and Body Mass Index of Adults in 2 Ojibwe Communities. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 99:710- [dietary intake; foodways; overweight; North American Indians; Ojibwe].

Goode JG; Theophano J; Curtis K (1884) A Framework for the Analysis of Continuity and Change in Shared Socio-Cultural Rules for Food Use: The Italian-American Pattern. in LK Brown; K Mussell (eds) Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity. University of Tennessee Press, pp. 66-88 [ethnic foodways; change; North America; United States; Italian-Americans].

Hall RL. 1992. From Blackstrap Molasses to Smokeless Tobacco: A Chronicle of Assaults on the Dental Health of Native Americans in the Northwest. IN Health and Lifestyle Change. R Huss-Ashmore, J Schall, and M Hediger (editors). [food habit change; diet and disease; North America; Northwest Coast; Indians]

Harnack L; Story M; Holy Rock L (1999) Diet and Physical Activity Patterns of Lakota Indian Adults. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 99:829-835 [North American Indians; Lakota].

Hawley F (1943) An Inquiry into the Food Economy and the Body Economy of Zia Pueblo. American Anthropologist. 45:547-556 [ecology; nutritional status; North American Indian; Zia pueblo].

Recommended -- click for detailsHonigman J. 1961. Food in a Muskeg Community: An Anthropological Report on the Attawapiskat Indians. Northern Coordination and Research Center. [ethnic foodways; North America; Canada; Indians; Muskeg].

Hudson CM (1979) The Black Drink: A Native American Tea [collected essays; history; prehistory; North American Indians].

Ikeda JP; Murphy S; Lamp C (1998) Dietary Quality of Native American Women in Rural California. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 98:312- [diet; women; North America; California; North American Indians].

Jackson M; Godfrey F (1990) Federal Nutrition Services for American Indian and Alaska Native Elders. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 90:568-571 [applied nutrition; North American Indians; Alaska; Inuit (Eskimo)].

Jackson MY (1986) Nutrition in American Indian Health: Past, Present, and Future. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 86:1136-1140 [health; North American Indian].

Jarvenpa R (1999) Bush Food/Country Food/Town Food: Power, Meaning and Dietary Transformation in Three Societies. in E Museo Nacional de Antropologia (ed) Alimentacion Y Cultura Actas Del Congreso Internacional, Vol Ii 1998. La Val de Onsera, pp. 729-748- [change; social meaning; North American Indians; Chipewyan (Dene); Europe; Finland; Central America; Costa Rica; Terraba].

Recommended -- click for detailsJohnston SL (2001) Food Choice Is Shaped by Accessibility: How Sources of Food Have Changed over Time for the Blackfeet. Nutritional Anthropology. 24:3-9 [food system; selection; change; North American Indian; Blackfeet].

Jolles CZ (2002) Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community. University of Washington Press [subsistance; social relations; food system; North American Indian].

Jones EL (2003) Dietary Eveness, Prey Choice, and Human-Environment Interactions. Journal of Archaeological Science. 31:307-317 [archaeology; dietary breadth; ethnology; North America; Canada; Inuit].

Joos S (1984) Economic, Social, and Cultural Factors in the Analysis of Disease: Dietary Change and Diabetes Mellitus among the Florida Seminole Indians. in LK Brown; K Mussell (eds) Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity, pp. 217-237- [dietary change; disease; diabetes mellitus; North American Indians; Florida; Seminole].

Katz S; Hediger ML; Valleroy LA (1975) The Anthropological and Nutritional Significance of Traditional Maize Processing Techniques in the New World. in E Watts; F Johnston; G Lasker (eds) Biosocial Interrelations in Population Adaptation. Walter de Gruyter, pp. 195-231 [food processing; North American Indian, South American Indian].

Kavasch B (1979) Native Harvest, Botanical and Recipes of the North American Indian. Indian Archaeological Institute [food use; plants; vegetables; cookery; North American Indian].

Kavena J (1980) Hopi Cookery [ethnic foodways; cookery; North American Indians; Hopi].

Kemp W (1971) The Flow of Energy in a Hunting Society. Scientific American. 225:104-115 [ecology; foragers; North America; Greenland; Inuit (Eskimo)].

Knowler WC; Pettitt DC; Bennett PH, et al. (1983) Diabetes Incidence among the Pima Indians: Genetic and Evolutionary Considerations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 113:144-156 [disease; diabetes; physical anthropology; North American Indians; Pima].

Kuhnlein H; Turner N (1991) Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples: Nutrition, Botany and Use. Gordon and Breach [food species; gathered vegetables; ecology; Canada; North American Indians; Inuit].

Kuhnlein HV (1979) Composition of Traditional Hopi Foods. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 75:37-41 [nutrition; North American Indians; United States; Arizona].

Kuhnlein HV (1991) Nutrition of the Inuit: A Brief Overview. Arctic Medical Research. Supplement:728-730 [food habits; nutrition; North America, indigenous peoples].

Kuhnlein HV (1995) Benefits and Risks of Traditional Food for Indigenous Peoples: Focus on Dietary Intakes of Arctic Men. Canadian Journal of Physiological Pharmacology. 73:765-771 [eating habits; change; industrialization; age factors; food contamination; North American Indians; Canada; Arctic].

Kuhnlein HV; Calloway DH (1977) Contemporary Hopi Food Intake Patterns. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 6:159-173 [dietary intake; North American Indian; Hopi].

Kuhnlein HV; Calloway DH (1977) Minerals in Human Teeth: Differences between Preindustrial and Contemporary Hopi Indians. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 30:883-886 [mineral nutrition; North American Indian; Arizona].

Kuhnlein HV; Receveur O; Soueida R, et al. (2004) Arctic Indigenous Peoples Experiencing the Nutrition Transition with Changing Dietary Patterns. Journal of Nutrition. 134:1447-1453 [acculturation; obesity; Canada; Dene; Metis; Inuit].

Kuhnlein HV; Soueida R (1992) Use and Nutrient Composition of Traditional Baffin Inuit Foods. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 5:112-126 [foodstuffs; North America; indigenous peoples].

Laferriere J (1995) A Dynamic Nonlinear Optimization Study of Mountain Pima Subsistence Technology. Human Ecology. 23:1-28 [subsistence ecology; North American Indian; Pima].

Lander H (1964) Seven Navaho Verbs of Eating. International Journal of American Linguistics. 30:94-98 [classification; language; North America; North American Indians; Navaho].

Landy D (1985) Publoktog (Hysteria) and Inuit Nutrition: Possible Implications of Hypervitaminosis A. Social Science and Medicine. 21:173-185 [malnutrition; disease; hysteria; North America; Inuit (Eskimo)].

Lang G (1989) "Making Sense" About Diabetes: Dakota Naratives of Illness. Medical Anthropology. 11:305-327 [diet and disease; diabetes; North American Indian; Dakota].

Lippe-Stokes S (1980) Eskimo Story-Knife Tales: Reflections of Change in Food Habits. in JRK Robson (ed) Food, Ecology and Culture: Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices, pp. 75-82 [dietary change; North America; Inuit].

Nabham G; Weber C; Berry J (1979) Legumes in the Papago-Pima Indian Diet and Ecological Niche. The Kiva. 44:173-190 [human ecology; food use; beans; diet; North American Indians; Papago; Pima].

Nabhan G (1980) Papago Indian Floodwater Fields and Tepary Bean Protein Yields. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 10:71-78 [crop system; human ecology; North American Indians; Papago].

Pelto G (2001) Continuities and Challenges in Applied Nutritional Anthropology. Nutritional Anthropology. 22:16-22 [nutritional anthropology].

Powers W; Powers MNM (1984) Metaphysical Aspects of an Oglala Food System. in M Douglas (ed) Food in the Social Order. Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 40-96 [social relations; symbols and meaning; North American Indians; Oglala Souix].

Powers W; Powers MNM (1986) Putting on the Dog. Natural History. 95:6-16 [foodstuff; North American Indians].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsReceveur O; Boulay M; Kuhnlein HV (1997) Decreasing Traditional Food Use Affects Diet Quality for Adult Dene/Metis in 16 Communities of the Canadian Northwest Territories. Journal of Nutrition. 127:2179-2186 [dietary survey; nutrition; change; North American Indians].

Reed LJ (2000) Arctic and Subarctic Regions. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1323-1329 [history; acculturation; feasts; North American Indians].

Rosman A; Rubel PG (1971) Feasting with Mine Enemy: Rank and Exchange among Northwest Coast Societies [social relations; feasting; conflict; fighting with food; exchange; North American Indian; Northwest Coast].

Rozin P; Haidt J; McCauley C, et al. (1997) Disgust: Preadaptation and the Cultural Evolution of a Food-Based Emotion. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste: Continuity and Change. Berghahn, pp. 65-82 [aversion; behavioral evolution].

Scarry CM; Reitz EJ (1990) Herbs, Fish, Scum, and Vermin: Subsistence Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Florida. in DH Thomas (ed) Columbian Consequences. Smithsonian, pp. 343-354 [history; North American Indian].

Schaefer O (1971) When the Eskimo Comes to Town. Nutrition Today. 6:8-16 [food habit change; urbanization; North America; Inuit].

Schwartz J (1991) The Great Food Migration Newsweek, pp. 58-62 [history; diffusion; food use; Europe; North American Indians].

Scott EM (1956) Nutrition of Alaskan Eskimos. Nutrition Reviews. 14:1-3 [nutritional patterns; North America; Alaska; Eskimo (Inuit)].

Skye B (1995) Traditional Cree and Iroquois Food. in JM Powers; A Stewart (eds) Our Northern Bounty: A Celebration of Canadian Cuisine. Random House [foodways; eating habits; North American Indians].

Snyder L (1991) Barking Mutton: Ethnohistoric, Ethnographic, Archaeological, and Nutritional Evidence Pertaining to the Dog as a Native American Food. in J Purdue; B Styles (eds) Beamers, Bobwhites, and Blue-Points: Tributes to the Career of Paul W. Parmalee. University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology, pp. 359-378 [foodstuff; dog; North American Indians].

Speth J (1991) Some Unexplored Aspects of Mutualistic Plains-Pueblo Food Exchange. in a Spielmann (ed) Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists: Interaction between the Southwest and the Southern Plains. University of Arizona Press, pp. 18-35 [food system; exchange; North American Indians; Southwestern and Southern Plains peoples].

Spradley J (1969) Guest Never Leave Hungry: The Autobiography of James Sewid, a Kwakiutl Indian. Yale University Press [feasting; North American Indians; Kwakiutl].

Stefansson V (1937) Food of the Ancient and Modern Stone Age Man. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 13:102-129 [diet; meat eating; cooking practices; Arctic; North America; Inuit].

Stefansson V (1960) Food and Food Habits in Alaska and Northern Canada. in I Galdston (ed) Human Nutrition Historic and Scientific, pp. 23-60- [food habits; dietary patterns; meat; fat; North America; Alaska; Canada; Inuit (Eskimo)].

Storey M; Bass MA; Wakefield LM (1986) Food Preferences of Cherokee Teenagers in Cherokee, North Carolina. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 19:51-59 [preference; North American Indians; Cherokee].

Terry RD; Bass MA (1984) Food Practices in an Eastern Cherokee Township. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:63-70 [food habits; North American Indian].

Turner NJ; Philip S; Turner RD (1995) Traditional Native Plant Foods in Contemporary Cuisine in British Columbia. in JM Powers; A Stewart (eds) Our Northern Bounty: A Celebration of Canadian Cuisine [plant use; North American Indians; Canada; British Columbia].

Vaughan LA; Benyshek DC; Martin JF (1997) Food Acquisition Habits, Nutrient Intakes, and Anthropometric Data of Havasupai Adults. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 97:1275-1282 [North American Indians; Havasupai].

Vogel VJ (1976) American Indian Foods Used in Medicine. in WD Hand (ed) American Folk Medicine: A Symposium. University of California Press [food and health; North American Indians].

Watson JB (1943) How the Hopi Classify Their Food. Plateau. 15:49-52 [folk classification; North American Indian; Hopi].

Williams DE; Knowler WC; Smith CJ, et al. (2001) The Effect of Indian and Anglo Dietary Preference on the Incidence of Diabetes in Pima Indians. Diabetes Care. 24:811-816 [acculturation; food preference; nutrition and disease; North American Indians; Pima].

Wolfe WS; Weber CW; Dahozy Arviso K (1985) Use and Nutrient Composition of Traditional Navajo Foods. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 17:232-344 [foodstuffs; nutritional values; North American Indian].

Woolf N; Conti KM; Johnson C, et al. (1999) Northern Plains Indians Food Practices, Customs, and Holidays. American Dietetic Association/American Diabetes Association [foodways; feasts; North American Indians].

Wright AL; Bauer M; Clark C, et al. (1993) Cultural Interpretations and Intracultural Variability in Navajo Beliefs About Breastfeeding. American Ethnologist. 20:781-796 [infant feeding; North American Indians].

Wright AL; Clark CBM (1993) Maternal Employment and Infant Feeding Practices among the Navaho. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 7:260-280 [North American Indians; Navaho].

Young YK (1993) Diabetes Mellitus among Native Americans in Canada and the United States. American Journal of Human Biology. 5:399-413 [nutrition and disease; diabete mellitus; North American Indians; Canada; United States].

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