Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience

185 Pages·2012·0.993 MB·English

by  Enrique Salmón

eating the landscape

Eating the Landscape
American Indian Stories
of Food, Identity, and
Resilience
Enrique Salmón
© 2012 Enrique Salmón and The Cultural Conservancy
All rights reserved
www.uapress.arizona.edu
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Salmón, Enrique, 1958–
Eating the landscape : American Indian stories of food, identity, and resilience /
Enrique Salmón.
p. cm. — (First peoples : New directions in indigenous studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8165-3011-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Indians of North America—
Food—Southwest, New. 2. Indians of North America—Agriculture—
Southwest, New. 3. Indians of North America—Southwest, New—Ethnic
identity. I. Title.
E78.S7S24 2012
979.004'97—dc23
2011035703
Publication of this book was made possible, in part, with a grant from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation.
Manufactured in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper
containing a minimum of 30% postconsumer waste and processed chlorine free.
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Contents
Figures ix
1 In My Grandmother’s Kitchen 1
2 Sharing Breath: The Grass Is Not Always Greener
on the Other Side 12
3 Pojoaque Pueblo and a Garden of the Ancients 31
4 We Still Need Rain Spirits 48
5 Bounty among the Saguaro 67
6 Small Fields for Large Impacts on the Colorado
Plateau 85
7 Highways of Diversity and Querencia in Northern
New Mexico 106
8 Singing to Turtles, Singing for Divine Fire 122
9 A New American Indian Cuisine 138
10 The Whole Enchilada 155
Further Reading 163
Index 167

Figures
1.1 Rarámuri Collection Basket 2
2.1 Rarámuri Family Walking to Norogachi 13
2.2 Rarámuri Yúmari Ceremony 20
3.1 Ancestral Puebloan Petroglyphs 32
4.1 Hopi Elder in Cornfield 49
5.1 Sonoran Desert Landscape 68
6.1 Navajo Cornfield 86
7.1 An Acequia in New Mexico 107
8.1 Seri Elder 123
8.2 Seri Musician El Indio 133
9.1 Rarámuri Squashes 139
10.1 Rarámuri Children at El Mirador 156
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