Dog people : native dog stories

Dog people : native dog storiesby Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
Publication date 1995
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Abenaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki
The Abenaki (Abenaki: Wαpánahki) are indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States. They are an Algonquian-speaking people and part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Eastern Abenaki language was predominantly spoken in Maine, while the Western Abenaki language was spoken in Quebec, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
Food, crafts
the Abenaki practiced a subsistence economy based on hunting, fishing, trapping, berry picking and on growing corn, beans, squash, potatoes and tobacco. They also produced baskets, made of ash and sweet grass, for picking wild berries, and boiled maple sap to make syrup. Basket weaving remains a traditional activity for members of both communities.
Museum
since 1960, the Odanak Historical Society has managed the first and one of the largest aboriginal museums in Quebec,
Notable Abenaki from this area include the documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin (National Film Board of Canada)
Family, villages
Unlike the Haudenosaunee, the Abenaki were patrilineal. Each man had different hunting territories inherited through his father.
Most of the year, Abenaki lived in dispersed bands of extended families. Bands came together during the spring and summer at seasonal villages near rivers, or somewhere along the seacoast for planting and fishing. During the winter, the Abenaki lived in small groups further inland. These villages occasionally had to be fortified, depending on the alliances and enemies of other tribes or of Europeans near the village. Abenaki villages were quite small with an average number of 100 residents.
Wigwams
Most Abenaki crafted dome-shaped, bark-covered wigwams for housing, though a few preferred oval-shaped longhouses.[4][29] During the winter, the Abenaki lined the inside of their conical wigwams with bear and deer skins for warmth.
Gender, food, division of labor, and other cultural traits
The Abenaki were a farming society that supplemented agriculture with hunting and gathering. Generally the men were the hunters. The women tended the fields and grew the crops.[30] In their fields, they planted the crops in groups of "sisters". The three sisters were grown together: the stalk of corn supported the beans, and squash or pumpkins provided ground cover and reduced weeds.[30] The men would hunt bears, deer, fish, and birds.
The Abenaki were a patrilineal society, which was common among New England tribes. In this they differed from the six Iroquois tribes to the west in New York, and from many other North American Native tribes who had matrilineal societies.

Narrative of captivity
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Librivox
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Ethnobotany 🌿🌼
The Abenaki smash the flowers and leaves of Ranunculus acris and sniff them for headaches.[33][34] They consume the fruit of Vaccinium myrtilloides as part of their traditional diet.[35] They also use the fruit[36] and the grains of Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides[37] for food.
They use Hierochloe odorata (sweetgrass), Apocynum (dogbane), Betula papyrifera (paper birch), Fraxinus americana (white ash), Fraxinus nigra (black ash), Laportea canadensis (Canada nettle), a variety of Salixspecies, and Tilia americana (basswood, or American linden) var. americana for making baskets, canoes, snowshoes, and whistles.[40] They use Hierochloe odorata and willow to make containers,
Corn 🌽
Maize (/meɪz/ MAYZ); Zea mays subsp. mays, also known as corn in North American and Australian English, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.
Potato 🥔
Potatoes are tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.[3]
Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile.[4]
Potatoes were domesticated there about 7,000–10,000 years ago from a species in the S. brevicaule complex.
Common bean 🫘
Phaseolus vulgaris, the common bean,[3] is a herbaceous annual plant grown worldwide for its edible dry seeds or green, unripe pods.
The common bean has a long history of cultivation. All wild members of the species have a climbing habit
Strawberry 🍓
Fragaria virginiana, known as Virginia strawberry, wild strawberry - The berries are edible.
Blueberry 🫐
Vaccinium angustifolium, commonly known as the wild lowbush blueberry, is a species of blueberry native to eastern and central Canada (from Manitoba to Newfoundland) and the northeastern United States,
Chokecherry
Prunus virginiana - The chokecherry fruit can be eaten when fully ripe, but otherwise contains a toxin.[18] The fruit can be used to make jam or syrup, but the bitter nature of the fruit requires sugar to sweeten the preserves.
Aronia melanocarpa, called the black chokeberry, is a species of shrubs in the rose family native to eastern North America,
Canadian bunchberry
Cornus canadensis - The fruits are edible raw but have little flavor.
Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens, also called the eastern teaberry - teaberries", are edible, with a taste of mildly sweet wintergreen similar to the flavors of the Mentha varieties M. piperita (peppermint)
The leaves and branches make a fine herbal tea, through normal drying and infusion process.
Its fruit persists through the winter, and it is one of the few sources of green leaves in winter.
Wintergreen is a favorite food of the eastern chipmunk,
Maple tree 🌳
Acer rubrum - Red maple is also used for the production of maple syrup, though the hard maples Acer saccharum (sugar maple) and Acer nigrum (black maple) are more commonly utilized.
Hawthorn
Crataegus - The "haws" or fruits of the common hawthorn, C. monogyna, are edible. In the United Kingdom, they are sometimes used to make a jelly or homemade wine.[21] The leaves are edible, and if picked in spring when still young, are tender enough to be used in salads
Greens, roots 🌿🌱
Toothwort
Cardamine diphylla (broadleaf toothwort) - A member of the mustard family, it is typified by a four petal flower...The Abenaki use it as a condiment.
marsh-marigold 🌼
Early spring greens and buds of Caltha palustris are edible when cooked (but are poisonous when raw)
Cinnamon fern
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum - In North America it occurs from southern Labrador west to Ontario, and south through the eastern United States
historically used by first nations tribes (Abnaki, Menominee) as a food source. The Iroquois and Cherokee tribes used the fern for a wide variety of medicinal purposes including as a cold remedy,