How did the Navajo gather and prepare their food?

They got thier food by plantng and growing corn, squash, beans , melons, onions, chillies, peaches and other crops. Also, by raising sheep, goats and some cattle. They also gathered pinon pine nuts, yucca fruit, wild greens and seeds and berries and herbs. They hunted rabbits, antelope, big horn sheep, elk, deer, every so often bison.

Corn was the staple. Blue corn meal mush, kneel-down bread, dumplings, large cakes cooked under gorund, small cakes like tortillas, roasted corn on the cob, corn cooked in stews were all eaten. Mutton is roasted grilled or stewed. Fry bread with wheat flour came after 1868.