What did native americans used to eat?

Deserts are often considered to be barren places without plants or animals, but the natives found food even in the hottest, driest places.

Wild fruits, seeds and roots were gathered; a few tribes such as the Jicarilla and Lipan Apaches grew corn, beans and squash.

Deer, antelope, elk and bighorn sheep were hunted in mountainous areas, but generally smaller game animals such as snakes, woodrats, cottontail rabbits, birds and oppossums formed the main element of the diet.

Some desert tribes hunted with a throwing-stick, very much like an Australian boomerang, which would knock down birds and small animals such as rabbits (they are sometimes called rabbit-sticks).