Native American Foods: Before and after Contact: Nineteenth Century

In the nineteenth century Anglo-American hegemony and major transformations in native culture and foodways accelerated. At the beginning of the century, trade continued. Native Americans offered the products of their heritage, such as corn, reflecting continuity with their traditional foodways. Until the demise of the buffalo late in the nineteenth century, the mobile Apache traded buffalo products for the products of Pueblo agriculture. Indians increasingly traded for cash. As the fur trade decreased, transactions were more likely to resemble the Ojibwa practice of supplying local wild blueberries to local stores. The eastern Cherokee, still strongly identified with tradition in the early 1830s, were growing enough corn to sell and only a small amount of wheat for their own consumption.