Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History
Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History
by Michael D. Wise
University of Arkansas Press, 2023 Paper: 978-1-68226-238-2 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-803-1 Library of Congress Classification E98.F7W57 2023 Dewey Decimal Classification 970.00497
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History, Michael D. Wise confronts four common myths about Indigenous food history: that most Native communities did not practice agriculture; that Native people were primarily hunters; that Native people were usually hungry; and that Native people never developed taste or cuisine. Wise argues that colonial expectations of food and agriculture have long structured ways of seeing (and of not seeing) Native land and labor.
Combining original historical research with interdisciplinary perspectives and informed by the work of Indigenous food sovereignty advocates and activists, this study sheds new light on the historical roles of Native American cuisine in American history and the significance of ongoing colonial processes in present-day discussions about the place of Native foods and Native history in our evolving worlds of taste, justice, and politics.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Michael D. Wise is an environmental historian specializing in the history of food and agriculture and an associate professor of history at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies.
REVIEWS
“Native foods are ubiquitous but unacknowledged. An expert historiography based on thorough research in environmental and social histories, Native Foods frames the rich, emergent, experiential literature on Indigenous foodways in the United States, ending pointedly with a critique of the neocolonial quest for native superfoods to save us from the travails of Euro-American civilization.”
—Krishnendu Ray, author of The Migrant’s Table
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Food and Possession in Colonial New England
2. Food and Diplomacy in Iroquoia
3. Food and the Cherokee Removal
4. Food and Adaptation on the Blackfeet Reservation
5. Food and Activism in the Twentieth Century
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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