Native American Food Tradition Analysis

This week the central theme of the text is to follow the shifts in the main food source and the dependence on tools, weapons and etc. For example, The Lummi were dependent on salmon for thousand of years for an important resource the Lummi built logjams in salmon breeding areas due to eroded lands to keep their main resource. With the Northwestern Indians strong cultural, economic and political ties to salmon reaching beyond the borders decreasing challenges to their main food supply was inevitable.
Moreover, the readings this week show the shift in food supply after the first contact with the Europeans you can see the Northwest Coast people starting to hunt mammals of the sea change their main food source and becoming dependent more on weapons. I believe the central theme of the readings this week is after the shifts in the main food source because before the first contact with the Europeans their main food source was salmon. After this first contact with the Europeans things began to change and the Northwest Coast people had to adapt to their environment even though they began abandoning their traditions. …show more content…
With the spread of this disease the Europeans forced the Natives to abandon their traditions and allowed the Europeans to carry out treaties, which made the Natives lose their land and be unable to defend it. With these changes forced on the Northwest Coast people they adapted. According to Boxberger's "The Preservation Lummis" the Indian Treaty Act supported these changes and developed reservations lasting into modern