Posted by Tom Broome on 10/20/2005, 9:33 pm, in reply to "sago palm & Penan tribe" --Previous Message--
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: Hi. I'm a student of a university.
:
: In my english class of this
: semester, we are talking about the
: Penan tribe who live in Borneo with
: hunting and gathering.
: I heard that they want to live in
: forest where are full of foods to
: them and important things to them.
: Especially Sago palm is important to
: the Penan tribe.
:
: therefore I want to know why the
: Sago palm is important to them, the
: Penan.
:
: Could you answer my question?
:
: Thank you
:
Throughout the world, native people have eaten cycads or cycad seeds in some form or another. Even in Florida, the natural zamia (called coontie by the Semenoles) was a main staple for food. I know nothing about this tribe, but they must be using the stems of these plants to make a starch rich food, much like the 'sago' eaten in Japan. This is the reason why we call sago palms, sago palms, becuase they were eaten in times of famine by the people in and around Japan.
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