List of Illustrations Preface to Revised Edition Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Traditional Diets and Activities Case Study 1: Five Tribes in the Southeast Chapter 2. The State of Indigenous Health Case Study 2: Changing Diets and Health in Indian Territory Chapter 3: Challenges to Recovering Health Case Study 3: Frybread Chapter 4: What Are You Ingesting? Chapter 5: Calories, Exercise and Recovering Fitness Chapter 6: Changing What We Eat Chapter 7: Importance of Backyard Gardens CURRICULUM GUIDE RECIPES Appetizers: Guacamole dip Lima bean hummus Summer Salsa and Baked tortilla chips Salads, Soups and Stews: Vegetable, Turkey, and Game Stocks Tomato Broth Dandelion Salad Dakota Waskuya (Dakota Dried Sweet Corn Soup) Gazpacho Elk stew Eileen's Acorn Squash/Pumpkin Soup Choctaw stew Osage Strip Meat Soup (Ta-ni¢) Main Dishes: Meat and Vegetable Kabobs Elk Steaks Good for Your Heart Fried Moose Meat Venison Burgers Salmon 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 Sautee Sweet Potatoes Mamaw Helton's Creamed Corn Osage Yonkopin (tse¢-wa-the): water chinkapin roots and seeds Chahta Tanfula Chickasaw Pashofa Pinto Beans Avocados Prickly Pear Paddles Green Chile Grilled Corn on the Cob Luiseno Weewish Wild Onions Zucchini canoes Stuffed bell peppers Mashed Potatoes with corn gravy Stuffed Butternut Squash Jalapeno Grits Breads: Choctaw Banaha Osage Persimmon Cakes (Wah-zha¢-zhe wa-dsiu¢-e çta-in¢-ge) Corn, Bean and Turkey Bread Drinks and Breakfast: Abuske Fruit Smoothie Blue Corn Pancakes Morning Corn Mush Desserts: Pawpaw Sorbet Grape Dumplings Cookies Mamaw Helton's Stewed Fruit Wojapi Cranberry Pie with Corn Meal Crust Foods to Last Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Pemmican-inspired bars Greenbeans Peas Pumpkins Appendix A: Pre-Contact Foods of the Western Hemisphere Appendix B: Diet Chart for One Week Index.