Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples, Nutrition, Botany and Use

TRADITIONAL PLANT FOODS OF CANADIAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Nutrition, Botany and Use

HARRIET V. KUHNLEIN
School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition
McGillUniversity
Montreal, Quebec

and

NANCY J. TURNER
Environmental Studies Program
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia

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Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology
A series edited by Solomon H. Katz, University of Pennsylvania

Volume 1	FOOD, ECOLOGY AND CULTURE
	Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices
	Edited by John R.K. Robson
Volume 2	FAMINE
	Its Causes, Effects and Management
	Edited by John R.K. Robson
Volume 3	INFANT CARE AND FEEDING IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
	Edited by Leslie B. Marshall
Volume 4	FOOD ENERGY IN TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS
	Edited by Dorothy J. Cattle and Karl H. Schwerin
Volume 5	THE INFANT-FEEDING TRIAD
	Infant, Mother, and Household
	Barry M. Popkin, Tamar Lasky, Judith Litvin, Deborah Spicer
	and Monica E. Yamamoto
Volume 6	THE EFFECTS OF UNDERNUTRITION ON CHILDREN'S
	BEHAVIOR
	David E. Barrett and Deborah A. Frank
Volume 7	AFRICAN FOOD SYSTEMS IN CRISIS
	Part One: Microperspectives
	Editedby Rebecca Huss-Ashmore and Solomon H. Katz
	Part Two: Contending with Change
	Edited byRebecca Huss-Ashmore and Solomon H. Katz
Volume 8	TRADITIONAL PLANT FOODS OF CANADIAN INDIGENOUS
	PEOPLES
	Nutrition, Botany and Use
	Harriet V. Kuhnlein andNancy J. Turner
Volume 9	THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICAN FAMINE
	Edited by R.E. Downs, Donna O.Kerner and Stephen P. Reyna
Volume 10	INVESTIGATIONS OF ANCIENT HUMAN TISSUE
	Chemical Analyses in Anthropology
	Edited by Mary K. Sandford
Volume 11	THE ORIGINS AND ANCIENT HISTORY OF WINE
	Edited by Patrick E. McGovern, Stuart J. Fleming and
	Solomon H. Katz
Volume 12	THE ECOLOGY OF PRACTICE
	Studies of Food Crop Production in Sub-Saharan West Africa
	Edited by A. Endre Nyerges

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CONTENTS

Foreword