what plants did the navajo gather
More info: Just as domestic animals have largely displaced wild game in the diet of the Navajo flour and canned goods from the trader have almost eliminated the use of wild plants and other native foods.Corn and garden products have always been of importance, and still are when drought or frost do not ruin them.ILD PLANTS. Wild plants which were gathered for food in early times included greens from beeweed; seed from the hedge mustard, pigweed and mountain grass; tubers of wild onions and wild potato; fruit like yucca, prickly pear, grapes; wild berries such as currants, chokecherries, sumac, rose, and raspberries.