Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)

I actually took a online course with Professor Enrique Salmon. The book was probably the major high light of the whole course. When you start reading it, it sounds like the Professor is having a regular conversation with you through a book. The stories in the book are so funny that I found myself laughing to myself in the library. Some of the passages in the book allows for self reflection within our own culture that we come from. The overall content on book connects to the major theme of Indigenous worldview of having a connection to the earth we are inhabiting on. 5/5 stars reccomend.

I am taking ES 360: Ethnicity and the Land for my major and was assigned many books for this course. This book is short and sweet, easily digestible, and filled with history. Although it has much history sprinkled throughout, it doesn’t feel like any of the other books I’ve been required to read. This book does a great job of tying in a lot of the major ideas practiced by Indigenous Peoples we’ve learned throughout the course thus far through personal experiences you can feel and descriptions you can taste. I highly recommend this book for those who are new to learning about Indigenous culture and knowledge and are looking for a light and enjoyable read to kick off your journey in Indigenous studies!

Well written and very nostalgic, I was hoping for recipes and did not find them. Was disappointing since I was looking for cook books when I came across this book.

As an Applied Cutural Anthropologist and College Professor, I was curious about the content. I could not put this book down. Enjoyable read and I would encourage others to become enlightened how our traditional peoples of North America relate to traditional foods how these impact our lives. Main stream American could learn alot if they applied these concepts to their personal diets!

Such rich tales of the beautiful collaboration between plants and people.

Eating the Landscape is a thoughtfully eloquent description of why what we eat informs who we are, our sense of the world and our place in it. Plants are some of the best friends we can cultivate!

This is a good read, because you get an insider's view of many Native Indian practices. The author is a professor at the college I attend.