Did pre-Colombian Native Americans use salt?

Yes. Native Americans used salt and there is evidence of long distance salt trade and salt production. In many places certain plants or not shells if they are reduced to ash will be salty. This was done in many places. People made salt by evaporating briny water from salt springs. They used rock salt deposits. read more

Native Americans used salt and there is evidence of long distance salt trade and salt production. In many places certain plants or not shells if they are reduced to ash will be salty. This was done in many places. read more

There are a number of ways by which salt can be produced, but in Eastern North America Indians obtained most of their salt from salines located far from the coast. A few groups, such as the Chitimacha Indians of Louisiana, did indeed boil seawater, but this practice was rare in Eastern North America as a whole. read more