Links and Resources from Native American Heritage Month Webinar #2: Menominee Agriculture

It has been such a joy to celebrate Native American Heritage Month with you on our First Nations live webinar series.  We started the series on November 6, with with Dr. Annie Jones, professor of Organization Development and Tribal Nations Specialist at University of Wisconsin, Department of Extension, and Jennifer Gauthier, director of the Sustainable Development Institute at College of Menominee Nation. We are grateful for their generosity in sharing their knowledge and experience, but also in sharing names for subsequent speakers.

Last week on Nov. 13, we were delighted to meet Miranda C. Washinawatok, UW Madison PhD Anthropology Student, who is studying Indigenous North American history. Some fascinating new understanding has recently come about with the help of technology and recent archeological discoveries - and Miranda quite literally blew us away with her understanding and archeological photos of ancient Menominee agricultural practices. There were many requests for a day-long class! We will follow up on that - so stay tuned. Did you know that both Annie and Miranda lead Cultural Tours of the mounds and other important Native American artifact sites at the UW Madison campus? Request a tour HERE. Please join us TOMORROW for a webinar on the Menominee Forest!

Here are other resources shared in the presentation:

Feeding Cahokia, book by Gayle Fritz

Article on archeological evidence of Menominee raised beds: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/06/archaeologists-find-intensive-indigenous-farming-michigan

Five Islands Site: https://www.yellowmaps.com/usgs/topo.cfm?map=wi-1565041-five-islands

Harvest of the Moon Resources: https://health.extension.wisc.edu/harvest-of-the-moon/

Wild Plume Menominee Caterer: https://www.facebook.com/p/Wild-Plume-61575061734349/

Anaem Omot Menominee Cultural Property: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS17028

Article on 60 Islands Raised Beds: https://www.wpr.org/news/archaeologists-surprising-discovery-menominee-river

Join us tomorrow at noon for the third and final webinar in the series! Forester McKaylee Duquain will present on the world-famous Menominee Forest! It will not be recorded. RSVP to get the link HERE.

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