Good Seeds : A Menominee Indian Food Memoir (Hardcover)

from SDaisy

This book is a personal memoir of a Menominee Indian youth growing up in a quickly changing world, and it is about the foods eaten or made by his family, and the changes that the white man made on their traditional diet. It is also about the hunting, gathering, and preparing of these different fo...

from buckwriter

Meno means good, min means grain or seeds. Menominee is a native American tribe of the USA. These Native Americans are surely not only Good Seeds, - like also the title of this book - but part of the Woods.I don't know you but everytime I read a book written by a Native American in this particula...

from jetangen4571

A family history, a Wisconsin tribal history of the Menominee, a limited personal history, a food history, this book is all of these things and more. The recipes are gleaned from family, tribal, and other cookbooks. There are recipes with wild rice, berries, wild game, fishes, corn, maple syrup, ...

from Lewie

(Please Note this Review is from a Uncorrected Page Proof and not the finished product) This work is a excellent example of storytelling and weaving a traditional culture of a Native American people with that of European contact and the hybrid culture that has resulted. The author in his story te...

from Carolee888

I remember from my junior high school course on Indiana history that Indiana at one time had Menominee Indians along with the Miami, Kickapoo, Shawnee many others. I can see that map in my mind. Unfortunately, most are gone now. So I wanted to read Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir by Th...