Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. And traditional Native ...
One in a series of columns co-written by Tony and Karen Russo, a father-daughter team and former owners of Russo’s in Watertown. IPSWICH — It’s hot, the sun is shining, and there is no doubt it is ...
For hundreds of years, Mandan and Hidatsa villagers farming river bottoms in what is now North Dakota traded corn, beans and squash with nomadic tribes that hunted along the Yellowstone River. Lewis ...
Celebrating its 45th anniversary, the Museum of Indian Culture hosted its annual two-day Roasting Ears of Corn Festival Saturday. It’s Pennsylvania’s oldest Native American festival celebrating the ...
Blue corn gnocchi and frybread tacos are the modern iterations of Indigenous cuisine, complete with the three sisters and New Mexico's trademark chile peppers. Veronica Stoddart is a ...
IXTENCO, Mexico — On the slopes of the Malinche volcano, Juan Vargas starts the dawn routine he’s had since childhood, carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, Vargas worried that ...
For centuries Native Americans intercropped corn, beans and squash because the plants thrived together. A new initiative is measuring health and social benefits from reuniting the “three sisters.” ...