Pacific Northwest, 1859 in a native village…fish and elk doesn’t seem that “special” of a diet in this circumstance.
fish and elk doesn’t seem that “special” of a diet in this circumstance.
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In the PacNW, before it was settled, was a food paradise. Food was in abundance everywhere all year long. The locals - especially the Skoks, held ‘potlatches’ were they destroyed food and other material wealth in huge bonfires.
When faced with starvation due to the yearly raids by the Canadian tribes, they would hold their collective noses and resort to eating clams, oysters, and Dungeness crab.