How come the Navajo were the only North American natives that developed a noteworthy cuisine...

How come the Navajo were the only North American natives that developed a noteworthy cuisine? It's not like they were the ONLY ones that weren't nomadic.

> JPG is garbage, but Google images failed me

Passamaquoddy had a fine cuisine. I think your misinformed.

I'm sure they did. We just genocided them too fast for the future to have resources on the subject and back then folks weren't particularly interested in the food of "savages"

Because the wholesale destruction of native culture.

Also probably the lack of imported spices.

Jared Diamond says it's because they never had access to food due to the orientation of their continents.

Most were wiped out, so the cuisine was lost. The Navajo lived in such a hostile environment the whites didn't steal their land. Their primary enemies were the Apaches who raided and pillaged their food stores. Contrast them with the Plains agricultural economies of the Mandan or Kansa, whose rich agricultural land was prized by whites and consequently were destroyed. A superior technology backed by a ruthless Christian idealogy hellbent on elimination of anything different from the Christian death cult resulted in a complete destruction of the agriculturally based Native Americans.

You're forgetting an important fact. Pre-contact native americans were living an essentially paleolithic lifestyle with pockets of agriculture maintained with paleolithic instruments. This does not engender enough free time to fuss over food. Sure, they used wild herbs to try to improve the flavor, but food was considered a mechanism to keep you capable of getting more food and reproducing. Also the Navajo had an extremely deep spiritual tradition. Even today, there aren't any cumskins that know the entire spiritual practices of the Navajo.

might share what's so special about that cuisine for all the non-muricans?

>orientation of their continents
what the fuck does that mean

Fine, but how is it that they could develop such a deep spiritual practice of they supposedly didn't have time for much else outside of bare survival? Something's amiss here.

Bing is better for images these days

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Did navajos invent the taco?

Porn too.

Jared Diamond thinks a thermonuclear explosion occurs whenever you try to put a saddle or bit and bridle on a Zebra, who cares what some pseudointellectual thinks?

>2017
>muh noble savage
Dude, racist much? Yikes.

>first poster responds with well thought out argument
>your counterargument is essentially "no, u"

when will summer be over?

Aztecs are still in North America, they are the foundation for modern Mexican cuisine.

>Navajo

Because food is more scares in that region so utilizing spices and other flavors to maximize it was essential.

>somethings amiss

Not really. The 3 recurring fundamentals of any human culture are mode of production (food and shelter), social organization and religion. Those 3 elements interact with and support each other to sustain the group. "Fussing" with food is far below those 3 in ensuring survival.

It hasn't even begun.
(Also why does this website think the youth can't access it during the schoolyear?)

Assuming Aztecs don't count, a lot of their traditions were wiped out. They did eat wild rice mixed with cranberries, fry bread (never had it) and cooked squash and the like.

In elementary school a teacher told me they ate popcorn like cereal (mixed with milk) and I've always meant to try it because it sounded interesting.

This is a gross simplification. But when people migrate, historically they usually migrate east and west, rather than north or south. Probably because the climate changes more with latitude and people prefer to stick with what they know. Also there have been geographical barriers that make the east-west thing easier than the north-south sort.

And when people migrate they take their domesticated livestock, which is a huge influence on how societies and civilizations can develop. Incans for example had access to potatoes and llamas, but that never really made its way into north america until much later. Those geographical areas with access to more useful animals and crops were more prone to developing civilizations. An area with horses is going to be better off because you can domesticate horses and use it for agriculture and warfare.

You can't domesticate a zebra though, so you're going to be shit out of luck if that's what you've got.

The zebra thing, btw, has led to a lot of retarded memes, which is what that one guy is referring too. People say "Well zebras look like horses, that means they're just like horses!" It's bullshit.

Ah. Interesting. Makes a lot of sense actually.

They had good food but they were killed with the intention of erasing them from history.

I thought native Americans invented hot dogs and hamburgers.

Diamond wrote several books in which he explained that the reason Europeans succeeded is due to all sorts of ridiculous bullshit that handicapped other cultures from developing beyond the mud hut stage. It's not their fault that the rest of the world is a bunch of ignorant savages, it's just pure luck that the Europeans managed to live in a territory where there were animals to domesticate, metal ores to be worked, and appropriate climate conditions to let them survive. It definitely had nothing to do with hard work, inventiveness, cultural norms that promoted stability, and so on. No, it's because the Europeans had access to horses, while the Native Americans killed all of their native horses off and ate them, and meanwhile the Africans only had shitty zebras, and there's absolutely no metal ore deposits in Africa despite the current Chinese mining consortium efforts, and the Africans could only eat grubs instead of giraffes so they couldn't get enough protein to let their brains develop. Because luck. It's ONLY luck, definitely not basic inferiority of Africans. Oh, and ignore the Chinese, who basically were kicking Europe's ass until the Renaissance or so, they don't count, ignore the massive theory-ruining example.

Now, you point at some Pacific islanders trapped on a dot in the ocean, and yeah, the man might have a point, but the rest of his pseudoscience is just gibberish.

Your post went way beyond rambling and became incoherent babbling instead.

You just wrote a nice line for a death metal song

It's understandable though. Guns, Germs and Steel is retarded enough to drive anyone a bit berserk.

IOW I successfully reproduced Diamond's writing style. TYVM!

>navajo cuisine

nothing but fry bread and mutton, my nigga

>injun metal

Is that

a thing

fry bread is not traditional it only came after the government sent excess flour to NEETs

>JPG is garbage
What a dumb thing to say

First Nation EDM exists (Tribe Called Red) so I assume metal would

I don't see the relation.

>Mandan
It's funny you bring those up, they were mostly killed by disease, and never engaged in battle with the settlers. The Souix, not Christians, were the only "people" that slaughtered those tribes.
>Kaw
It's also funny you named them, seeing as other Indians, and again, disease were the ones responsible for their destruction. In about 1800, there were only about 1500 of them anyway, by 1873, smallpox reduced their numbers to about 500. They either traded or sold their land.
These were inferior people that were never destined to survive, just like countless other groups of people all over the globe.

Is there any other "facts" you would like to make up?

Is this a Veeky Forums thread or /pol/?

Not that its not interesting but ive yet to see a pic of on topic food or a recipe.

There probably were other cuisines before 99% of them got euroaids and died

>disease not inflicted as a biological weapon on the native americans

Any other delusions? Also, the Sioux, while raiding the Mandan and Hidatsu agricultural food supplies, and Apache raiding Navajo, did not engage in wholesale slaughter like white Christians, since they benefited from the agricultural tribes' industry. Stop attempting to be a white Christian apologist for the wholesale genocide inflicted on native americans. Furthermore, Herr Sturmfaggot, you showed your true colors when you branded them an inferior race. The only people that take that kind of nonsense seriously are your circlejerk buddies. Need a black lady security guard to protect you from a single, diminutive SJW, like Spencer did?

OP here. I certainly didn't mean it to become pol, as I honestly have no biases to any cultures or races. I just wanted to discuss how iconic food cultures are formed.

k?

This, plus lack of fucking salt.

Could you make your outrageous butthurt any more obvious?

>you showed your true colors when you branded them an inferior race.
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Meh, it's Veeky Forums it's gonna happen more often than not.

>every dish is essentially shit on a shingle
so innovative and foundational

>navajo
>anything noteworthy

Ya das a gud wun cuzin

Literally never happened before stormfront made a beachhead.

Ok cool. Now list when and where white Christians slaughtered Mandan Indians.

Where the hell did they get milk from? Cows weren't in North America during Aztec times. Also post your source on the food the Aztecs ate.