Pine Nuts & Buck Berries
The tiny community of Yomba, smack dab in the middle of the Toyabi National Forest, hosted us for two days and took us through the mountains and the valleys of the rez riding in clunky vans and the beds of pickup trucks. Pine nuts are a traditional staple food for the Shoshone, as are buck berries (or buffalo berries), and a few elders were kind enough to show the group gathering and preparation methods of these two foods.
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