Salt

Started by Early Graves, July 30, 2009, 09:16:10 AM

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Early Graves

Does anyone know how the plains Indians acquired salt?

Ozark Tracker

I know about the Arkansas river through  Oklahoma,  Salt licks along the river occured, where the salt water would be collected and let dry out leaving salt,  this occurs naturally  throughout the country,  I'm sure the indians knew where the closest location was.
We done it for Dixie,  nothing else

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Delmonico

For the most part the Natives did not use any salt.
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Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

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The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Ozark Tracker

here's an articile out of the chronicles of Oklahoma,  about salt

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v010/v010p474.html#top
We done it for Dixie,  nothing else

"I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved."

Shotgun Franklin

In places there are naturally occurring salt deposits. In West Texas there several salt lakes. NDNs traded with each other for whatever they happened to need. While salt is hard to trace because it tends to dissolve into it's surroundings, I'm sure there was some salt trading going on.
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Don Nix

 The Indians got salt the same place the white man did only a lot sooner.
.Places like the Saline river  in Arkansas yielded salt. the Quawpaws and Caddoes were inveterate traders. Man and animals need salr to survive that is why salt licks developed.
There are salt deposits scattered all over.
In the southwest the "salteros" hauled salt into Mexico.
  While the Indians may not have used salt as a preservitive they most certainly  used it.

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Quote from: Don Nix on July 30, 2009, 10:39:50 AM
The Indians got salt the same place the white man did only a lot sooner.
.Places like the Saline river  in Arkansas yielded salt. the Quawpaws and Caddoes were inveterate traders. Man and animals need salr to survive that is why salt licks developed.
There are salt deposits scattered all over.
In the southwest the "salteros" hauled salt into Mexico.
  While the Indians may not have used salt as a preservitive they most certainly  used it.

And those that had access, traded to those who did not.


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