Final Program for Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit

The Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit at Gun Lake Pottawatomi starts with hands-on traditional technology workshops on Wednesday morning, April 19th and runs through Sunday, April 23rd, featuring numerous workshops on topics ranging from seed keeping to conservation planning to cooking in clay pots on wood fires.

Click the link below to download the final event program, and check out the main event webpage for registration and additional event information.

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Sapping, syrup and sugar – Jijak 2017

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Maple sugar used to be packaged in 65lb mukuks, or birchbark baskets by the Ojibwe Anishinabeg of the Great Lakes.  65lbs of maple = about 8.1 gallons of syrup. You can learn a lot more about historic and contemporary sapping, making maple syrup or sugar and the kinds of trees you can tap at this years Great Lakes Food Summit coming up April 19-23rd, 2017 in Hopkins, Michigan.