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Although silver mining brought many Spaniards to Mexico and silver was the largest single export from New Spain, agriculture was extremely important.There were far more people working in agriculture, not only producing subsistence crops for individual households and small-scale producers for local markets, but also commercial agriculture on large estates to supply Spanish cities.
Juan de Oñate's colonists and the later settlers had introduced domesticated horses, cattle, pack animals, crops, fruits, goats and sheep into New Mexico, beginning a significant transculturation process for regional food supplies and transportation. The natives of the bison plains, for example, quickly exchanged information with the frontier ...
Buffalo hunting, i.e. hunting of the American bison, was an activity fundamental to the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, providing more than 150 uses for all parts of the animal, including being a major food source, hides for clothing and shelter, bones and horns as tools as well as ceremonial and adornment uses.
Cucurbita foetidissima is a tuberous xerophytic plant found in the central and southwestern United States and northern Mexico. [3] It has numerous common names, but is most commonly called the buffalo gourd in English. The type specimen was collected from Mexico by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland sometime before 1817. [4]
Before the 19th century, bison were a keystone species for the native shortgrass prairie habitat as their grazing pressure altered the food web and landscapes in ways that improve biodiversity. [4] The expanses of grass sustained migrations of an estimated 30 to 60 million American bison which could be found across much of North America. [ 5 ]
Mexico is the world's leading producer of avocados as of 2020, supplying nearly 30% of the global harvest in that year. Mexico is the world's largest avocado growing country, producing several times more than the second largest producer. In 2013, the total area dedicated to avocado production was 188,723 hectares (466,340 acres), and the ...
Bison is an excellent source of complete protein and a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of multiple vitamins, including riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B 6, and vitamin B 12, and is also a rich source of minerals, including iron, phosphorus, and zinc. Additionally, bison is a good source (10% or more of the DV) of thiamine.
This was in addition to over two million wild horses. [16] The horses put pressure on the bison in two ways. First, they competed with the bison for grazing, reducing the carrying capacity of the bison belt. Second, they enabled the Plains Natives to kill bison at a much greater rate than prior to the adoption of horses. Dust bowl, Texas Panhandle