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The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest ...
At the 28th Coushatta Powwow, Native artists use music, quilts, and crafts to educate, celebrate, and carry their traditions ...
New research at the Sixty Islands site in Michigan revealed large-scale Native American farming, challenging long-held ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a massive, 1,000-year-old agricultural system in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Swan hopes the honoring ceremony inspires younger generations to receive their own star quilt and eagle feather ... report card, 29% of American Indian/Alaska Native students graduated on time.
Ancient ridge fields in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula show how Indigenous Menominee communities practiced large-scale farming.
Stay informed with the latest news about local and national Native American communities ... duo from the Lower Sioux Indian Community, creating star quilts as gifts is what brings them together.
The mounds—created by the ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin ... “much of the eastern U.S. was once covered in Native American agricultural ridges,” McLeester adds.
With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place for farming. But a new ...
With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place for farming. But a new ...
But a new Dartmouth-led study provides evidence of intensive farming by ancestral Native Americans at the ... and other plants by ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.
Along a forested bend of the Menominee River in northern Michigan, archaeologists have unearthed an ancient agricultural ...