Gunner wrote:

> Wow, amazing, What are the odds that the American Tradition of Thanksgiving
> would include so many Native foods from whence they lived? Wow, It is
> almost like the supermarket must have been sold out of everything, Huh.
> Again wow, totally!

Wayne was probably trying to pull the strings of middle class "guilt"
by pointing out that the Indians ate turkeys before the Pilgrims...

The sedentery tribes of North America lived in what was essentially
nature's supermarket.

They didn't have to go anywhere, they just waited for the food to grow,
or the game animals to wander by...

The men hunted, when the mood struck them, and the women gathered
various vegetables and fruits (in season). The women did all the dirty
work, but the men had the important job of keeping the universe in
order by performing various rituals (in season).

As humans spread over the Earth and cultures met and merged (or had
conflicts), various native peoples generously offered native foods to
the newcomers. For instance, the Tongva tribe of the Los Angeles area
welcomed the Spanish explorers with laboriously gathered chia seeds.
The Spaniards rejected the gift, saying that they had no
vessel to carry them in.

In other parts of the world, European explorers encountered starving
native peoples who refused to eat foods that were all around them. One
explorer reported that Africans would not eat the fish that were
vailable by the thousands in the Rift Valley lakes...