Native Americans are well respected for being resourceful people. Consider their food sources and how they used them historically. They took ingredients that were available and inventively multi-purposed them. Not only did tribes cook and eat corn, but they also used what’s known as Harinilla, or Blue Corn Meal. Harnilla can be ground into flour and used for baking tortillas and other starches. Native American food also consists of fish, deer, rabbits, lamb, buffalo, mutton, and pork. Wild grains and vegetables were commonplace in the Native American diet, and squash, sage, wild onions, cabbage, pumpkins, and cactus played vital roles in their diets. Today’s society and culture owes much of what it has learned about food to natural American resources and how Native Americans ingeniously used them.