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Article: The sacred turnip: dietary clues gleaned from tuber traditions. (role of the prairie turnip in the life of the Blackfoot Indians) (Cover Story)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- May 18, 1991
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"We rode out over the treeless plains until, from the crest of a ridge, about twenty miles from the main range of the Rockies, we looked down upon a scene which I will never forget because of its novel and exceeding beauty.
"In a luxuriant tract of meadow, and on the shore of a lake, lay the tribal camp of the Blackfoot, pitched in the form of an enormous circle. The undulating ridges which surrounded it were brilliant with blue lupines and velvet-leaf sunflowers. Great herds of horses were contentedly feeding on the rich bunch grass. Smoke from the evening fires was rising from the lodges. A faint breeze, laden with pleasant fragrance from the meadows, ...
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