Operational changes at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, a park in southeastern Colorado that represents an 1840s' trading post along the Santa Fe Trail, have drawn concerns that the site is losing is living history programming.
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They poured hot water through baskets of acorns to leach out the bitter-tasting tannin. There were enough oaks at the Pio Pico site to support at most 33 villages. “The nutrients in the acorns, combined with other foods, provided a complete diet for an individual.”
The people roasted grasshoppers, yuccas, and ate abalone. But their number-one food source was the acorn, shaken from branches of Coast Live Oak trees. They poured hot water through baskets of acorns to leach out the bitter-tasting tannin. Hector estimates that there were enough oaks at the Pio Pico site to support at most 33 villages and a minimum of 3. “The nutrients in the acorns, combined with other foods, provided a complete diet for an individual.”