The peoples of Stkamish, Skopamish and Smulkamish longhouses whose descendants now make up the Muckleshoot Indian Nation have, for millennia, depended on a wide variety of food sources through reciprocal relationships between plants, animals, people, the land, and the cosmos. Traditional food systems reveal aspects about past, present, and future social, biocultural, and economic relations of a community. Abstract : Food serves as a lens into the culture of a people.
