What kind of foods did Sious eat ?

Food: The Sioux were hunters and gatherers. They hunted buffalo, deer, and other animals. They gathered fruits and vegetables. Some of the Sioux people also grew crops. The Three Sisters were the most important crops - maize, squash, and beans. They also grew pumpkins. Food was often traded between the various tribes.

Buffalo: In the Sioux culture, a boy could hunt his first buffalo at age 10. To a young boy, a single buffalo stands six feet tall, and weighs about as much as 10 people. Buffalo do not see well, but they run really fast. Can you imagine how a boy might feel, getting ready for his first kill? He would be riding a pony. All around him, men would be yelling to get the buffalo to run. Each would have picked out one buffalo to kill. With his boy and arrow, in the midst of all this racket and danger, a ten year old boy was expected to attempt a kill. There was no dishonor attached if he was not successful, but he had to try. The buffalo was everything to the Sioux. No part of the buffalo was wasted.

Jerky: Sioux woman made jerky by drying buffalo meat. First, they pounded the meat into a powder. Then they added animal fat, and let the mix dry. If jerky was made correctly, it remained safe to eat for two years. The Sioux stored jerky, knowing it would be safe to eat for a very long time. Jerky was portable. It allowed hunters to take food with them.

The Sioux ate mostly buffalo -- boiled, broiled, dried, and sometimes raw.
After a buffalo hunt, the Sioux ate fresh buffalo.
In winter, when buffalo were hard to hunt, the Sioux ate dried buffalo meat, called pemmican.
The Sioux also ate other meats (bear, deer, antelope, and wild turkey and hens), wild fruits (cherries, berries, and plums) and wild vegetables (potatoes, spinach, and prairie turnips).
The Sioux did not plant any crops because they were nomadic hunters. They were always on the move and could not take care of them.
Food was shared or traded by all the members of the tribe.
Reference:
http://www.imahero.com/readingprogram/sioux.html
http://sioux.org/more_history.html http://www.travelsd.com/newsroom/history/nativeamericans.asp


2007-11-20 08:30:13 補充：
Pemmican is a concentrated food consisting of dried pulverized beef, dried berries, and rendered fat. It was invented by the native peoples of North America , and widely used during the fur trade and later by Arctic and Antarctic explorers.