Notice the nuts within the pinecones. These are the pine nuts. (Tactical Intelligence)

Some Indian tribes also used the Ponderosa for food. The Blackfoot tribe ate the tree’s inner bark and chewed the young male cones for their juice. The Klamath tribe would scrape off the cambium layer (the sweet layer between the bark and the sapwood) and eat it in time of famine, although the Snapoil and Nespelem tribes considered this layer a very important food. The Shashta tribe dried the pine nuts, powdered them, and made them into small cakes that were eaten with a very thick mush made of grass leaves. Lastly, the Miwok tribe would extract the pine nuts, dry them in the sun, and eat them.