More than 150 kitchen-tested Native recipes presented against the backdrop of the culture of a people who made food preparation an art as well as a prayer.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
September: Shinnecock Powwow, Navajo Nation Fair, Tulsa Native American Festival, Schemitzun: Feast of Green Corn, Annual Pine Nut Festival, Native American Day -- October: Saint Francis Feast Day at Ak Chin, Pueblo Feast Days, Narragansett Harvest Festival and Ceremony of Thanksgiving, Cranberry Day Festival, Autumn Bluefish Harvest, Delaware Big House Ceremony -- November: Dias de los Muertos, pawnee Veterans Day Dance and Gathering, San Diego's Feast Day, Thanksgiving, Nullakatuk: An Eskimo Thanksgiving -- December: Shalako Ceremony, Blackfoot Indian Art Festival, Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day, Hopi Soyal Ceremony at Winter Solstice, Christmastime in Pueblo Country, Miccosukee Arts Festival and the Seminole Fair -- January: Pueblo New Year's Day Dances, Three Kings' Day Festival and Dance, Iroquois Midwinter Ceremonies, Evening Firelight Dances and San Ildefonso Pueblo Feast Day -- February: Winter Ceremonies of the Northwest Coast People, Winter Socials and Powwows, Candelaria Day Celebration and Dances, Hopi Powamu Ceremony and Bean Dance, O'odham Tash Indian Days Celebration, Seminole Tribal Fair, Powwow, and Rodeo, Tulsa Indian Arts Festival -- March: Northwest Coast Potlatches, Return of the Buzzards, Maple Sugaring Festivals -- April: Shad - A Bush, A Fish, A Festival, Cree Walking Out Ceremony, April Powwows and other celebrations, Root Feasts and Salmon Feasts, Easter Week Celebrations in the Desert Southwest -- May: San Felipe Pueblo Feast Day and Corn Dance, Cinco de Mayo, Nipmuck Planting Moon Observance and Potluck, Pueblo Blessing of the Fields, Upper Mattaponi Spring Festival.