Importance of traditional foods for the food security of two First Nations communities in the Yukon, Canada.

Objectives: This study sought to evaluate food consumption patterns in the context of food security in two Yukon First Nations communities.

Study Design: Twenty-nine members of Vuntut Gwitchin households in Old Crow and 33 members of Tlingit households in Teslin participated in individual interviews.

Methods: Food frequency questionnaires were used to quantify traditional food consumption throughout the spring 2007 and winter 2008 and to identify potential temporal trends through a comparison with data from the early 1990s.