Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens

Devon A. Mihesuah is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor at the University of Kansas. She is the author of numerous award-winning books, including Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero, and is the coeditor of Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health.

List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface to the Revised Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Traditional Diets and Activities Case Study 1: The Five Tribes 2. The State of Indigenous Health Case Study 2: Changing Diets and Health in Indian Territory 3. Challenges to Recovering Health Case Study 3: Frybread 4. What Are You Ingesting? 5. Calories, Exercise, and Recovering Fitness 6. Changing What We Eat 7. Importance of Backyard Gardens Curriculum Guide Recipes Appetizers Guacamole Dip Lima Bean Hummus Summer Salsa Salads, Soups, and Stews Dandelion Salad Poke Salat Vegetable, Turkey, and Game Stocks Butternut Squash Soup Dakota Waskuya (Dakota Dried Sweet Corn Soup) Gazpacho Elk Stew Choctaw Stew Osage Strip Meat Soup (Ta-ni') Posole Main Dishes Meat and Vegetable Kabobs Venison Steaks Good for Your Heart Fried Moose Meat Venison Burgers Salmon Venison Meatloaf Osage Pounded Meat (Ta'-pshe) Corn Crust Pizza Enchiladas Vegetables and Side Dishes Pumpkins Tepary Bean-Prickly Pear Casserole Comanche Ata-Kwasa Baked New Potatoes Vegetable SautE Sweet Potatoes Mamaw Helton's Creamed Corn Osage Yonkopin (Tse'-wa-the), Water Chinkapin Roots and Seeds Chahta Tanfula Pashofa Pinto Beans Avocados Prickly Pear Paddles Grilled Corn on the Cob LuiseNo Weewish Wild Onions Zucchini Canoes Stuffed Bell Peppers Poblano Peppers Stuffed with Wild Rice, Cranberries, or Vegetables Mashed Potatoes with Corn Gravy Grits Spaghetti Squash Breads Banaha Osage Persimmon Cakes (Wah-zha'-zhe wa-dsiu'-e Cta-in'-ge) Corn, Bean, and Turkey Bread Blue Corn Pancakes Drinks and Desserts Abuske Pawpaw Sorbet Grape Dumplings No Wheat, Butter, Eggs, or Sugar Cookies Mamaw Helton's Stewed Fruit Wojapi Cranberry Pie with Cornmeal Crust Preserving Food Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Pemmican Appendix A: Precontact Foods of the Western Hemisphere Appendix B: Diet Chart for One Week Notes Index

"The book brims with information. . . . This well-researched book will be most useful to launch discussions or perhaps to read chapter by chapter."-Publishers Weekly "Educators, librarians, food sovereignty activists, culinary arts students, and those interested in Native American food history and sovereignty will find that this book is an excellent resource."-Elise Krohn, Tribal College Journal "The political goal of empowerment through dietary change is certainly worthy and most likely to be translated into action when generated from within by such a prominent member of a tribal nation as Devon Mihesuah."-Linda Murray Berzok, Gastronomica