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Title: Does anyone know the tribe that only ate meat?
Post by: kurite on January 23, 2010, 07:15:30 am
Just wondering i heard about them a while ago and forgot the name of the people. Apparently their diet is like 99% meat.
Thanks
Title: Re: Does anyone know the tribe that only ate meat?
Post by: RawZi on January 23, 2010, 07:34:28 am
    The one in Siberia that the magazine article told about?  I think some of their meat they actually prefer eating frozen, like doing that instead of cooking.  I don't think they ever cook anything at all.
Title: Re: Does anyone know the tribe that only ate meat?
Post by: PaleoPhil on January 23, 2010, 07:42:19 am
It could be one of the Arctic/northern First Nations peoples: Chukchi, Evenk, Inuit, Ket (Deng) and Nganasan, Khanty, Mansi, Namgis, Nenet, Sami, etc. Most of them eat some other wild foods than meat/seafood in the summer, but not much. Unfortunately, they increasingly have been eating modern foods too, some nations more than others.
Title: Re: Does anyone know the tribe that only ate meat?
Post by: TylerDurden on January 23, 2010, 05:21:58 pm
The Nenets are described as eating berries also in quantity, and while they usually eat their meats raw , they do boil them sometimes.
Title: Re: Does anyone know the tribe that only ate meat?
Post by: PaleoPhil on January 23, 2010, 05:32:05 pm
The Nenets are described as eating berries also in quantity, and while they usually eat their meats raw , they do boil them sometimes.
Yes, I know, and there are a wide range of diet variations within the various Arctic First Nations, but those cultures are the closest I can think of to what Kurite might be referring to. The Greenland Inuit are the only ones I've seen reported to literally have a 99% animal food diet (though the video I recently saw on a coastal Chukchi tribe indicated they ate only walrus and whale--but my guess is they may also eat some berries and other small tundra plants in the summer), so maybe that's the one he was thinking of.