The Three Sisters
What are The Three Sisters?
Corn, Beans, Squash
What is a WISGAAK GOKPEBAGEN?
What is a Black Ash Basket
What is the experiment for?
To find out what is the cause of sweetgrass leaving in some places.
What is the Maple Nation mainly comprised of
Sugar Maple Trees
An indigenous canon of principles and practices that govern the exchange of life for life is called?
Honorable Harvest
Where does the three sisters originate from?
Mexico to Michigan
Who was the teacher of the basket making class?
Who is John Pigeon
Who design the experiment?
Who is Laurie
What is produced in the Maple Nation?
Maple syrup
Why should we practice Honorable Harvest?
To respectfully harvest resources from the earth and honour the sacrifices made for our survival as humans
OR Sustainability of the earth
How do the three sisters support each other? Name 3 ways.
Corn gives support
Beans give nitrogen
Squash gives protection
Weaving black ash basket helps teach these two important values:
What is reciprocity, and respect
Which is the plot of sweetgrass that experiences decline in health?
What is the renewable resource used to fuel syrup production
wood
What does sweetgrass symbolize? (name one)
Kindness, healing and connection to spirit
What nutrition does the three sisters have? list all 3
Corn gives starch
Beans gives proteins
Squash gives vitamins!!!!
What are the 2 challenges that basket making face?
What is invasive insect (emerald ash borer), and loss of traditional knowledge (fewer youths are learning)
Why harvesting makes sweetgrass grow better?
Allowing remaining shoots to respond to the extras space and light.
What is the greatest threat to the Maple Nation in the next 50 years
climate change/rising tempatures
Sweetgrass is one of the Four Sacred Medicines in many Indigenous cultures. What are the others? (name one)
Tobacco, cedar, and sage
Whats the bacteria that makes nitrogen called?
Rhizobium
What are the 4 steps in making a black ash basket?
What are choose tree, pound log, peel splints, and weave
What is the different group of harvesting?
Hand pulling, cutting with scissors, and no harvesting.
Where is the Maple Nation located
northeastern woodlands
Name one of the rules under Honorable Harvest.
Never Take the First, Ask Permission, Listen for the Answer, Take only what you need, Minimize Harm, Use Everything You Take, Share, Be grateful and Reciprocate the Gift