Um, my tribe was here. LOL

The previous inhabitants being animals and plants, I'm goin to guess sunlight, water, other animals, and other plants.

from what I know small animals and plants .
they traded fur.

Maybe, this question should have said "at the time of first contact" to avoid paleo-indians and gold miners. The dominant types of subsistence were, of course, fish, game, wild plants. Perhaps, the crucial differences were those areas that grew corn, beans and squash (and in my area, chiles) and those that didn't. Here, in the southwest oasis and runoff agriculture areas, there was also semi-cultivation of agaves.

Another big distinction was who had alcoholic beverage areas. We had the intoxicating saguaro fruit drink and agave pulque.

I had hoped (in writing this question in l976) that it would create a desire for a local cuisine. Rather then game, you might have moose or caribou or seal or parrots. Rather than wild plants, we might say acorns, tapioca, or mesquite beans.

A good library refernce is The handbook of North American Indians put out by Smithsonian. Lots of volumes.

The Paiutes and the other native american groups lived here seasonally. In Las Vegas they utilized screwbean and honey Mesquite seed pods. Pinon nuts were also a very important natural crop which were available in the mountains surrounding Las Vegas. There are also many less important foods available such as chia (yes, the fuzzy stuff you grow on a chia pet) and indian rice grass. The mesquite beans and Pinon nuts were the staples.

They ate small mammals, including rabbit and deer, as well as several kinds of fish and shellfish, plus various wild berries. They lived in small huts and evidently traded with other tribes to the north, south and east.

the "preavious inhabitants" are some tribes 3 or 4.000 years ago. Since then we have no big diference.

They eat fish and hunting. They sustain themselves by commerce and trade.

The inhabitants before my time were hunters, gatherers and stone masons. Archaeologists have located hundreds of small "chirts" quarries where I live and many folsom points and arrowheads. These inhabitants were primarily meat and fish eaters because the growing season for fruits and vegetables is quite short (

The earlier inhabitants still live here on federal reservations. The Native North American Indian tribes in this area ate American Bison, bitterroot, camas root, deer (both Mule and whitetail), elk, berries that included Buffalo, huckle, rasp, and straw. All of this information can be found at the local library.

Gee, that's a pretty open question. It has been a while since I read John Lawson's account of pre-colonial NC, but I believe it was mostly game and some crops and Tobbacco. costal dwellers ate more fish and shell fish, but game and crops were still a big part of their diet. Actually, I believe that John Lawson said that the local native peoples have a dish called barbeque.

The zip-codegeography to tribes idea...you can't assume that people were stationary. There was movement even over tme spans of a few tens of years, let alone seasonal migrations.

I presume you mean the Miwok Indians and not the Greenberg family (who previously owned our home).

The tribes at the coast depended to a large degree on fishing (salmon at the river mouth and in the creeks), including molluscs (clams, abalone), frogs (laguna), sea lions, acorns, pine nuts, mushrooms, small animals like deer, birds (quail), birds' eggs, honey, mustard and mustard greens, kelp.

What would be wonderful is a national database of earlier native American territories listed by current zip codes!

Game, fish, and forrage was the primary
sustenance of the Blackstone indian tribe.

Obviously, museums are a good bet for this one. We have a local history museum as well as the state Indian Museum in this city.

Of course, this is California, so if you count 49ers as a tribe, the answer would be "dirt and hope."

Several indian tribes inhabited this regions, as evidxenced by the reservations which are still present. I believe they ate game, fish and acorns, primarily.

1. Ask a local Indigenous person/ group
2. Ask advice from a historical society
3. Go to your local library and look it up
4. Ask national parks people
5. Go to the local museum
6. Look around and try and figure it out

Lenni Lenape/ Delaware Indians, some southern incursion of Iroquoi. In Bayonne, specifically, the Pamrapo tribe of the Lenni Lenape.

Boy Scouts know this stuff for their hometowns... they should, anyway.

As for eating, not big farmers. Game and fishing were chief sources of sustenance. Oyster beds in Bayonne were plnetiful, and Newark Bay had a salt/fresh mix so all kinds of fish could be caught offshore. Lots of crab. Deer of course, rabbit everywhere (Bayonne still has rabbits). Probably pheasant and duck, as well as geese. Saltwater marshes in Bayonne were probably great hunting grounds.

Paterson, much of the same. A river culture has fishing as a main components, netting and fish traps always a good idea. Freshwater clams until the early 1800s. Game same as all of the region.

Seminole indians. The lived off of wild plants and edible roots, as well as hunted deer and wild boar.