Crabapples are an indigenous food in the Upper Peninsula. Photo: slambo_42 (Flickr)
Martin Reinhardt, member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and teacher at Northern Michigan University, is planning a Decolonizing Diet Project, where he and a group will only eat food that was available 300 years ago in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
The project officially starts spring 2012, but Reinhardt is already collecting wild foods and developing recipes. He’s made wild rice milk and pectin, gathered cranberries, leeks and ferns and been hunting to stock his kitchen.
Reinhardt has already tried out the decolonized diet with a week of eating indigenous foods.
What would be your indigenous Great Lakes meal of choice?