Timeline for Did starvation or malnutrition occur in indigenous American societies?
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| Apr 26, 2017 at 22:04 | history | edited | user18968 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2016 at 18:53 | comment | added | Cdn_Dev | In that case this question is too broad and needs to be narrowed down to specific tribes. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 19:58 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Canadian Coder: But you're forgetting that many American Indian cultures weren't nomadic, and certainly weren't purely hunter-gatherers. Many had extensive agriculture. If they supplemented their diets with things that were hunted & gathered, why not? I certainly did as a kid growing up in the rural US: wild foods ranging from greens & berries to squirrel & venison were a significant addition to what came out of the garden, or from the grocery store. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 19:32 | comment | added | HopelessN00b |
Of course, the native societies were relatively stable. People could could call on a wide range of resources and social networks as needed.[citation needed]
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| Dec 24, 2016 at 13:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/812644374903476224 | ||
| Dec 23, 2016 at 4:55 | history | edited | user18968 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2016 at 19:45 | answer | added | iayork | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 17:32 | answer | added | sds | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 17:04 | comment | added | Cdn_Dev | This question can be better answered with ecological food cycles than historiography. People forget that humans are just another animal amongst a food chain. So when there has been an abundance of food in the immediate environment, natives would eat well. Conversely, if natives over-hunted an area food would be scarce and they might starve. This is why many of them were nomadic. | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 15:09 | comment | added | SJuan76 | I find the recourse to "social network" arguable. A "social network" could work when there are resources but they are unevenly distributed (so they "flow" through the network). But if drought happened or the animals they hunted became scarce, it would have affected the whole of the population of a wide area, and then there would have been no resources to redistribute. | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 12:29 | comment | added | Greg | Any preagricultural and most agricultural society was under the constant threat of famine and malnutrition. The pink romantic memories about the paradise lost are just nostalgia, most of the part. | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 5:21 | comment | added | user18968 | Yes, that's a good way to paraphrase it. Clearly the colonists' concerns were overblown, but had they any basis in reality? | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 4:45 | comment | added | AeroFighter76 | Allow me to clarify the question: you mean to ask was there an actual deficiency or danger of an unstable source of food before the Europeans? | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 0:25 | history | asked | user18968 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |