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Dr. Mark Bonnell, a retired public health doctor and museum docent, celebrates the contribution of foods that Native Americans have made to help feed the world.
Mark Bonnell is a retired United States Public Health Service Captain who worked as a physician for 30 years in the Indian Health Service in Arizona and New Mexico. After retirement he gave tours and talks for 12 years for the New Mexico State Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. In his presentation, Dr. Bonnell expresses gratitude to Native North and South Americans for the hugely disproportionate contribution they have made to feeding the world. While they are now fewer than 1% of the world population, he will show they remarkably domesticated at least 50% of all the world’s food through selective breeding and cultivation of many plants over ten thousand years.
