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Farm News: Native American Connection To WI FoodscommentsPosted: 06.02.2011
Native Americans didn’t coin the term “eat local". For them, eating local was simply a way of life as they hunted, fished, and gathered plants to provide their food source. Long before white settlers began farming the land, the Winnebago (now known as Ho-Chunk) lived in Wisconsin as a successful agricultural tribe.
Learn about traditional Native American foods and taste samples when Rhonda Funmaker of the Ho-Chunk Nation’s Bear Clan visits Brodhead High School on Saturday, June 11 at 2 pm. Funmaker is a native gardener with an interest in heritage seeds and native plants. Her presentation will focus on the “key ingredients” of the Ho-Chunk diet including corn, beans, squash, rice, berries, maple syrup, fish, and buffalo from the prairies of southern Wisconsin. She will prepare several dishes and speak about the traditional gardening and cooking practices passed on to her by earlier generations.
The Ho-Chunk Cooking and Gardening Demonstration is being presented as one in a series of events associated with Key Ingredients: America by Food, the Smithsonian traveling exhibit at Brodhead Public Library now through June 17. The exhibit focuses on food, and explores how influences like culture, heritage and regional location play a part in what we eat, how we prepare our food, and how we celebrate with food. Local displays with an agricultural focus include from "Herd to Curd" starting with a Holstein herd and ending with cheese curds from Decatur Dairy Cooperative in Brodhead, and "Cheesemaking Past, Present, and Future" which compares historic methods to the automation used into today's cheese production.
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