Contemporary Hopi food intake patterns

Abstract

The Hopi are thought to have retained more of their traditional cultural patterns than most Native American groups in the United States today. However, less than 25 percent of dietary recalls from 420 children and women homemakers included one traditional food item in the daily regime, and today there is much less variety in the traditional foods used than when the diet was composed entirely of indigenous foods. The economic, geographical and cultural implications of the declining use of Hopi traditional foods are discussed.

Notes

Address reprint requests to Dr. Kuhnlein, Division of Human Nutrition School of Home Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T1W5.