Maple Syrup and Sugar
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Social Science, Agriculture
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Food, Cooking, Cuisine
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Quebec, Minnesota
Article abstract: Maple syrup and possibly maple sugar were used by tribes of the Northeast as foodstuffs and occasionally as trade goods
Many indigenous tribal peoples in the Northeastern Woodlands relied on the saps and gums of certain trees for food and gum products. Among these trees were spruces, birches, and maples. The last often supplied the tribes with a sweet, syrupy substance they mixed with other foodstuffs and possibly boiled down to make sugar. Tribes from the Abenaki of northern New England and Quebec to the Chippewa (Ojibwa) of Minnesota and...
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