The Native Alaskan Survival Story That Revealed How Indigenous Knowledge Helped Humans Adapt To One Of Earth’s Harshest Environments
The Plant That Wasn’t There — And Why It Mattered
One of the subtler dimensions of Arctic Traditional Ecological Knowledge concerns what Iñupiat peoples knew about the Arctic’s seasonal food calendar — specifically, about the plant foods available in certain seasons that supplemented the meat-based diet.
Wrangel Island has a brief Arctic summer, during which tundra plants emerge from the frozen ground: grasses, sedges, and various flowering plants that Arctic Indigenous peoples had learned to use as food and medicine.
These plant foods — eaten fresh — contain vitamin C and other nutrients that complement a meat-based diet.
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