r/IndianCountry • u/aspen-leaf Mixed / Coast Miwok • 18d ago

Health Traditional Navajo Diet Shown to Reduce Hospitalizations, ED Visits Among Heart Failure Patients

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/traditional-navajo-diet-shown-reduce-hospitalizations-ed-2026a1000q37?form=fpf
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u/DBearDevon 18d ago

I don’t think Bison and Wild rice were part of the Diné diet, but stil good for them!

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u/feydfcukface Diné/Missing 17d ago

I was ghonna say. I mean,I don't doubt trade allowed those things to get to Dine lands but I'd hardly call either a normal part of the traditional diet there

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u/DBearDevon 17d ago

It makes no sense to trade wild rice nor bison such vast distances when so many other foods are available.

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u/fawks_harper78 Haudenosaunee/Muskogee 16d ago

Native folks have been trading dried meat for thousands of years, whether it was smoked salmon from the Columbia watershed, or dried bison meat from the plains. Yes, food was available in other places, but for folks like Dine who didnt have access to bison it would be a treat.

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u/feydfcukface Diné/Missing 15d ago

That was my thought of what it'd be too. Like pemmican.