Native peoples depended on roots for food, including that of the Pacific Silverweed and other Cinquefoils. In Cascadia*, it is thought the Indigenous population may have exceeded 1 million *the area west of the Cascade crest, Fort Ross to the Aleutians. The US
held 5 million Indigenous, with 2 million in Canada, the highest concentration of any region being here in Cascadia. Stored bulbs and seaweed aside, each year there must have been an enormous cache of baked and dried roots, fruit, and nuts. One can starve to death eating only trout; carbohydrates are essential, especially enough to feed a million people during the Winter. The numbers don’t add up: a 1 million populace’s caloric needs vs. today’s scarce native plants known to be consumed by Native Americans. Might there have been Cinquefoil plantations “hidden in plain sight” that were not obvious to pioneers; purposely planted areas that disappeared as other native and introduced plants “took over” when their caretakers disappeared?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4254430
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https://www.plc215.org/…/uploads/2020/01/Stillaguamish.pdf
https://www.se.edu/…/09/A-NAS-2017-Proceedings-Smith.pdf
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