Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1919 — People Adapt Taste to Foods Nature Provides in the Most Abundance [ARTICLE]

People Adapt Taste to Foods Nature Provides in the Most Abundance

Men usually adapt their taste to those foods which nature provides in the most abundance and most easily procured, according to a survey made of the American continent. In the northern part'of Canada the Eskimos and Canadian Indians place their chief dependence for food and clothing upon the caribou, or American reindeer, but are changing to the seal, where the caribou migrate southward. In the early days the Indians of the plains relied upon the- bison. Along the Columbia river, noted for its salmon, fish was the prevailing food of the Indians, while acorns and smaller seeds formed the principal diet of the Indians in California. On the plains of .■‘Argentina—in Soullx America the guanaco took the place of the caribou of the north in the economic life of the natives. In the Atlantic coast region from Argentina to Hudson bay the Indians cultivated maize, manioc and other crops. History proves that the growing of these food plants originated in America, as they were well known to the Indians before Europeans crossed the sea.