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CATEGORIES:Exhibits (Museum, Gardens, ...)
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SUMMARY:Michigan's First Farmers 
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 4,000 Years of Indigenous Agriculture\n
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 In school, 
 students this time of year often learn 
 about how Native Americans shared their fall 
 harvest - "Three Sisters," or, beans, corn and 
 squash, and of course, cranberries - with the 
 European settlers at the first Thanksgiving 
 nearly 400 years ago. While these were new 
 foods for the Europeans, Native Americans had 
 been cultivating some of them for many thousands 
 of years in Eastern North America.\n
 \n
 Archaeologists 
 at Michigan State University are 
 researching early Native American agriculture, 
 particularly in Michigan, presenting key new 
 findings on 4,000 years of indigenous agriculture 
 for a new exhibition at the MSU Museum, 
 "Michigan's First Farmers."\n
 \n
 The familiar 
 expression, 'farming is our bread and butter' 
 tells a lot about how we rely on farming, 
 but in fact the earliest farmers were the native 
 peoples in Michigan who had a vibrant economy 
 that included early agriculture thousands 
 of years before European settlers arrived.\n
 \n
 Learning 
 more about this part of our past 
 gives important insights into the different paths 
 that societies around the world took toward 
 food production and illustrates the contributions 
 these societies made in the eventual 
 establishment of large-scale production practices.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://museum.msu.edu\n
 Contact email: pr@museum.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://museum.msu.edu/index.php?q=node/750\n
LOCATION:MSU Museum 
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