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Moose Muffle Stew

The animal's nose and upper lip make a savory, umami-rich soup.
Pemmican was made with bison meat and fat, along with choke cherries.
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Pemmican

Touted as the original energy bar, the bison-based mixture kept for months.
The dumpling gets boiled inside a hickory leaf.
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Cherokee Bean Bread

Bakers delicately wrap this corn-and-bean dumpling in hickory leaves before boiling.
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American Spicebush

The plant's fruit, leaves, and bark offer a spice rack of flavors.
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Sofkee

This Native American sour corn mixture can come as a cool drink or warm porridge.
Charlemont, Massachusetts

'Hail to the Sunrise'

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.
The grains of corn have been compared to gems or even jelly beans.
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Glass Gem Corn

This jewel-like corn became an internet sensation.
Pictographs at Indian Painted Rocks site.
Spokane, Washington

Indian Painted Rocks

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.
Chamberlain, South Dakota

Dignity of Earth and Sky

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.
Grouping of gravestones, Comet Lodge Cemetery.
Seattle, Washington

Comet Lodge Cemetery

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.
Ponce Inlet, Florida

The Green Mound

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.
The Dummett Plantation ruins.
Ormond Beach, Florida

Dummett Sugar Mill Ruins

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
Prophet's Rock
West Lafayette, Indiana

Prophet's Rock

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Marco Island, Florida

Otter Mound Preserve

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.
Bent's Fort plaza.
La Junta, Colorado

Bent's Old Fort

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.
Petroglyphs visible on Haleets Rock.
Bainbridge Island, Washington

Haleets Rock

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.
Kindred Spirits sculpture.
Cork, Ireland

'Kindred Spirits' Sculpture

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.
A central Pomo woman with army worms in Ukiah Valley, California, c. 1904.
insects

Why Eating Insects Is an American Tradition

Both Native Americans and colonists enjoyed fried cicadas, grasshopper flour, and insect fruitcakes.
Mark Hay April 2, 2018