. Studies of plant life in Canada [microform] : wild flowers, flowering shrubs, and grasses. Plants; Plantes; Botany; Botanique. STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE eleven feet; but with the culm and flower it would have measured twelve or thirteen feet in length. The month of September or later, in October, is the Indian's Rice harvest. The grain, which is long and narrow and of an olive green or brown tinge, is then ripe. The Indian woman (they do not like to be called squaws since they have become Christians) pushes her light bark canoe or skiff to the edge of the Rice beds, armed not with a sickle, but
. Studies of plant life in Canada [microform] : wild flowers, flowering shrubs, and grasses. Plants; Plantes; Botany; Botanique. STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE eleven feet; but with the culm and flower it would have measured twelve or thirteen feet in length. The month of September or later, in October, is the Indian's Rice harvest. The grain, which is long and narrow and of an olive green or brown tinge, is then ripe. The Indian woman (they do not like to be called squaws since they have become Christians) pushes her light bark canoe or skiff to the edge of the Rice beds, armed not with a sickle, but with a more primitive instrument—a short, thin- bluded, somewhat curved wooden paddle, -vith which she strikes the heads of ripe grain over a stick which she holds in her other hand, directing the strokes so as to let the grain fall to the bottom of the canoe; and thus the Wild Rice crop is reaped to give pleasant, nourishing and satisfying food to her hungry family. There are many ways of preparing dishes of Indian Rice: as an ingredient for savory soups or stew«; or with milk, sugar and spices, as puddings; but the most important thing to be observed in cooking the article is steeping the grain—pouring off the water it is steeped in and the first water it is boiled in, which removes any weedy taste from it. It used to be a favorite dish at many tables, but it is more difficult to obtain now. The grain, when collected, is winnowed in wide baskets from the chaff and weedy matter, parched by a certain process peculiar to the Indians, and stored in mats or rough boxes made from the bark of the birch tree—the Indian's own tree. Formerly we could buy the Indian Rice in any of the grocery stores at 7s. 6d. per bushel, but it is much more costly now, as the Indians find it more difficult to obtain. Confined to their villages, they have no longer the resources that formerly helped to maintain them. The birch- bark canoe is now a thing of the past; the Wild Rice is now 212 Ea. P
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