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Questions and Answers about the Spokane Indians
 

Did they ever starve?
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Nature was generous with food for the Spokane Indians. There were good and dependable sources of salmon, fish, edible roots, berries and game. But sometimes, especially during the winter, food supplies did run low. Perhaps the salmon supplies were low, or had been stolen. In this situation the Spokane Indians had a backup food supply: they could subsist by eating black moss gathered from pine trees.

They boiled the moss until it had the consistency of glue. They made a cake from this, sometimes flavored with meat or wild onions. (1) This may not have tasted very good, but it provided emergency food.

It also meant that they Spokane Indians did not abandon the old or the very young when faced with starvation. (2)

(1) Ruby, Robert H. abd Brown, John A., The Spokane Indians, University of Oklahoma:1970, p. 23
(2) ibid.











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