ANTH 3650 Lecture Notes - Matrilineality, Heredity, Patrilineality
29 Oct 2012
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Muckle chapter 5 - overview of traditional lifeways. Foraging and horticulture evident before arrival of europeans. Over 1500 species of plants used in the diet of first nations people of na. People of the arctic were generalized foragers, focused on marine resources. Some terrestrial animals for people of arctic - bears, caribou, moose etc. Subarctic groups - less marine resources - more land resources from boreal forest. Many groups created pemmican - a mixture of fat, meat, and berries that lasts months. Groups of northwest coast - complex foragers, focused on salmon, dried them out and had food supply for winter months. Plateau also focused on salmon, but did not have access to sea creatures but incorpo- rated many other plants and animals. Plains groups show both foraging and horticulture - bison and buffalo hunters by foot. Horses not incorporated until late 1500"s from spanish. Like the subarctic, people of plains preserved food through pemmican.
