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Food
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American
Indian Corn
Columbus did not realize that the gift of maize
was far more valuable than the spices or gold he hoped to find. He
had no way of knowing that the history of maize traced back some 8,000
years or that it represented the most remarkable plant breeding accomplishment
of all time.
http://www.niti.org/users/tushka/hahneev.htm
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Amos
Owen Garden of American Indian Horticulture
The garden started as part of a project a group
of students and I did back in 1976 for a bicentennial celebration
of American agriculture which was held in Lake Crystal, Minnesota
in September of that year. It had occurred to us that the contributions
of American Indians to agriculture were probably going to be overlooked.
We visited the directors who fully confirmed our belief.
http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/offices/scullin/Amos%20Owen%20Pages/Amos%20Owen%20Garden.html
alternate
URL:
http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/offices/scullin/web%20site%202003/Amos_Owen_Pages/Amos_Owen_Garden.html
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Buffalo
Hunt
When Perry Webster sewed beads onto his
moccasins last October, he imagined his ancestors doing the same thing
more than 100 years ago.
http://net.unl.edu/~swi/pers/buffalohunt.html
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Garden
of American Indian Domesticates
Humans have been living in the Americas (South,
North and Central) for at least 10,000 years and more probably 20,000
to 30,000 years. Much of that time was spent collecting wild foods,
but there came a critical point sometime around 9,000 years ago (give
or take a couple thousand years) when people began to modify the plants
they were exploiting. This roughly coincides with the end of the most
recent ice age. Before that, there is evidence of people burning to
keep land clear for grazing animals, weeding around favored wild plant
foods to protect the harvest, and even planting seeds and vegetative
parts of plants to keep them growing in the same place. Modification
of food plants, such as selecting and planting seeds from the sweetest
fruit or the hottest chili pepper or the biggest edible seeds with
the easiest to remove hull is domestication. Domesticating a plant
brings it into the care of humans, often to the point that it depends
on them to reproduce. We have been genetically manipulating (domesticating)
food plants, selecting for characteristics we prefer for thousands
of years.
http://www.mnsu.edu/garden/
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Kwakuitl
Recipes
Genuine Kwakuitl Indian recipes from NW Coast circa 1914. You will
probably want to try this recipe for boiled halibut heads & backbone.
With etiquette tips included for chewing the bones and spitting them
on the floor!
http://www.hallman.org/indian/recipe.html
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Maple
Sugaring and Technology
Tapping the trees of the Sugar Maple ( Acer saccharum ), and boiling
it down to syrup, is an American tradition
http://www.stevesauter.com/Maple_Syrup_Lesson_Plan.html
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Native
American Three Sisters Gardens
Welcome to the garden of the Three Sisters.
Who are the Three Sisters? The journey that you are about to embark
on will inform you. The Three Sisters are not people at all....
http://horizon.nmsu.edu/ddl/wqthreesisters_k.html
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Native
Seeds/SEARCH
Native Seeds/SEARCH (NS/S), a nonprofit organization
with offices in Tucson and Albuquerque, works to conserve the traditional
crops, seeds, and farming methods that have sustained native peoples
throughout the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico.
http://www.nativeseeds.org
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Seminole
Tripe Soup
William Bartram was a naturalist and a scholar
who traveled throughout Florida and other parts of the Southeastern
colonies, relatively untouched by the revolutionary fervor brewing
north of him. While gathering descriptions and drawings of native
plants in the area, he encountered the Seminole Indians--and was invited
by Seminole leader Cowkeeper to be guest of honor of the tribe.
http://www.soupsong.com/sseminol.html
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Three
Sisters Cookbook
The Three Sisters Story - Modern day
agriculturists know it as the genius of the Indians, who interplanted
pole beans and squash with corn, using the strength of the sturdy
corn stalks to support the twining beans and the shade of the spreading
squash vines to trap moisture for the growing crop.
http://www.oneida-nation.net/cookbook.html
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Three
Sisters Garden
Welcome to the garden of the Three Sisters.
Who are the Three Sisters? The journey that you are about to embark
on will inform you. The Three Sisters are not people at all....
http://www.horizon.nmsu.edu/ddl/wqthreesisters_k.html
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Wild
Plants and Their Uses
Wild
rice (Zizania aqualica) was by far, the most important food of the
new frontier. It proved to be the salvation of both, Native American
and White, many times during the century of Minnesota's fur trade.
http://www.whiteoak.org/learning/GilQ.htm
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Wild
Rice
Wild
rice is Mah-NO-min in Anishinaabemowin. The -min part of the word
rhymes with "bit". It means seed. The first part of the word is a
contraction of Manido, spirit-giver of this traditionally important
and sacred food grain
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/food/wildrice.html
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Wild
Rice
Wild
rice is important in the ecology of many lakes and streams. Its nutritious
seeds have long been recognized as a valuable waterfowl food.
http://glifwc.org/default.htm
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Weippe
Camas Festival
http://www.weippe.com/camas.html
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Games
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Games
of the Arctic
The Inuit have always enjoyed a variety of games
and sports. Skills developed by these games were often those necessary
for everyday survival in the harsh environment. Thus, the games concern
physical strength, agility, and endurance. Many Inuit games are traditional
and require no equipment. Some traditional games may have been learned
in Asia before the Inuit migrated across the Bering Strait (c. 2000
B.C.), while others were undoubtedly learned after migration, through
contact with southern Aboriginal peoples who had migrated at an earlier
time from Asia into the Western hemisphere.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Traditions/English/inuit_games.html
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Legends
of Our Times
In 1904, in an attempt to encourage Absalooka
farmers to improve their skills, S. C. Reynolds, the Indian Affairs
agent assigned to Crow Agency, Montana, decided to set up a rural
fair where people could exhibit their produce, foods and baked goods,
as well as handicrafts.
http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/rodeo/rode103e.html
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Legends
of Our Times Exhibit
"Legends of Our Times" traces the history of
Native people as buffalo hunters, horsemen, ranchers, and cowboys,
and as entertainers and participants in the sport of rodeo. The exhibition
begins by presenting the connections between traditional Plains and
Plateau cultures and such animals as the horse, the buffalo and the
dog—and how these connections influenced the Native cowboy's
perspective on ranching and rodeo life.
http://www.conexus.si.edu/legends/main.html
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Peabody
Museum Exhibit of Native Running
Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology is pleased to announce its "virtual" exhibition on the
traditions of Native American running. This exhibit is shown on-line
and not in physical space such as a gallery. The use of computer network
technology to present this exhibit, makes it accessible to anyone
with Internet access.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/mcnh_running/
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Sla-Hal,
Bone Game, or Stick Game
Sla-Hal, Bone Game, or Stick Game are three
ways to call a very popular game played amongst Northwestern Indian
Tribes. Indian people of all ages have enjoyed gathering and participating
in this exciting and traditional event for generations.
http://4d.sped.ukans.edu/si99/instituteprod/slahal/
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Sosemanuk
(Snow Snake)
This
is a popular winter sport played by many of the eastern Canadian tribes.
The Cree from the Piapot area remember chanting certain songs before
they threw the stick.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/games/target/snowsnake.html
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Traditional
Inuit Games
Tavvauvugut
means "Here we are!" It is good to be here and alive! Life. What is
it that makes Inuit life bearable in the Arctic where extremes persist
in a variety of forms?
http://www.arctictravel.com/chapters/gamespage.html
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World
Eskimo-Indian Olympics
The first
World Eskimo Olympics was held in Fairbanks in 1961 drawing contestants
and dance teams from Barrow, Unalakleet, Tanana, Fort Yukon, Noorvik
and Nome. The event was a big success and has been held annually ever
since.
http://www.weio.org/
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