>> Navaho were farmers, corn beans and squash mainly. Hunting would have
>> been very secondary.
>
> Not always.  Surely they hunted and gathered prior to settling in the
> SW
> U.S. and taking up farming.

The Navajo raise sheep and do a little farming.  The Hopi farm squash
and corn and raise a few chickens.  They have traded for each other's
benefit for generations.

Nowadays items like deep-friend bread make up a lot of the Navajo diet,
which has bad effects on them.  They buy flour and oil on the
reservation.  In the old days, mutton, juniper berries and other items
were boiled together as a basis for many meals.  Corn was rough-ground
and boiled into mush or made into patties.

Patty (having done volunteer work on various types of reservations for
ecological projects)
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