Anishinaabe Farming Curriculum student responses

Derrick Alvarado 1. Many varieties of corn grows in different areas 2. Healthier living means returning to the Earth to grow our own food. 3. Fish guts makes great fertilizer since most minerals were in water. Tawnisha Warren I learned that there are a lot of different varieties of corn they grow it in different areas to get a better harvest. Colonialism transforms to the word colon, which is political, economic, military, religious, academic. They used to burn islands to the nutrients and to keep predators away from the harvest. There was loss of plant form. -Relocation, -land alienation Joseph L Shcultz The importance of Native American Culture was the way to survive and it worked for many years, and since European Culture has been overrun and people now days feel that in order to be a farmer you need to have a tractor and use gallons of diesel fuel a day. We need to be the way it use to be to get every thing we need. The variety of corns and how they were grown and why burning is important and also learned a little history on how these things can and will come back. Hannah Smith What I know about oji-ag: -plants frown in cert way -3 sisters (squash, corn, peas) growing plants that help each other. -gift from others and creator. -N. most corn growers Mushkode=fire mush=medicine -1848 Canada law against buying from Indians. -Loss, depopulation, relocation, colonization, loss of culture. -ag biodiversity, very important in this climate -boil hominy with ash -re establishing 100s years old seeds