It is smoking corn silk. In October we would harvest brown corn silk from a field where the farmer made shocks of cornstalks that looked like Indian teepee tents. You can see drawings of them on ...

Corn is a Thanksgiving staple representing survival, tradition, and cultural exchange. ... So, the colonists referred to this locally grown grain as “Indian Corn.” ...

Recipe: 3 pints scalded milk, 7 spoons fine Indian meal, stir well together while hot, let stand till cooled; add 7 eggs, half pound raisins, 4 ounces butter, spice, and sugar, bake one and a half ...

Soon five kernels of corn were appearing on Thanksgiving tables across the nation. CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER In 1898, Rhode Island writer Hezekiah Butterworth published a poem ...

Theresa Secord (Penobscot, b. 1958). Ear of corn basket, 2003. Maine. 26/1694. By looking at Thanksgiving in the context of living cultures, we can make the holiday a more meaningful part of ...

In September, Danielle Hill Greendeer harvested 200 to 300 ears of hard, red-kerneled King Philip corn she had planted in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s community garden in Mashpee, Mass ...

Thanksgiving is celebrated in every home in the United States. The Feast of Green Corn and Dance (“Schemitzun”) is celebrated annually by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation in Ledyard.

Answer: The exact menu is unclear, but the corn would have probably been served as porridge or in a form similar to what we think of as grits, said Kathleen M. Wall, a historian and Colonial ...

The first Thanksgiving meal in Plymouth, Massachusetts, looked nothing like the gluttonous feasts we celebrate around today. The only two surviving documents from this harvest meal in 1621 ...

As November draws to a close, so does Indian corn season. Those decorative arrangements of colorful hard ears of corn that appear every year between Halloween and Thanksgiving disappear from front ...