The Bean Trees

corn and popcorn. In the same fields with maize, and usually in the same hills, the Hodenosaunee plant beans, squashes and pumpkins. They cultivate tobacco, melons, and sunflowers in separate plots. (Murdock, 1934, p. 4) After using the land for some time, the Hodenosaunee used a technique called the slash-and-burn in which, “Tracts of land are cleared by burning them over after felling the trees by alternate uses of stone axes and fire” and “After the fields have been burned over, the ashes are…

Columbus set foot in the new world. During the Mayan and Aztec Empire, cacao beans weren 't used as food but as currency and a bitter drink. Around 1519, an unknown Spaniard mixed sugar and cacao together creating the sweet chocolate flavor we know. The process of making chocolate first starts of with sìfting the cacao from foreign objects. It is then weighted and sorted by type. For half an hour or two, the beans are roasted at temperatures ranging from 210º - 290º F. The…

the goats to death to teach them a lesson. She would go and gloat to the goats about how they will have to find their food somewhere else. She will boast about her plan to will move the fruits to the trees since goats are unable to reach the fruit. She entered the goat village, ready to spill the beans about her plan. She walked up to the center of village, where a stone from long ago laid. She climbed upon the stone, and towered over all of the…

Central America, was an advanced, agricultural society that dominated for around 1200 years. The earliest civilizations date back to 1800 BC, while their civilizations peaked around sixth century AD. The early Maya were agricultural, growing, maize, beans, and squash. At their peak, they excelled in agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, mathematics, and architecture. The Maya focused on improving ways of health or medicine, and also focused on religion and complex rituals. One of the…

"Rethinking Pesticides" by Scott Hoffman Black touches on the issues that pesticides have forced upon the ecosystem for millennia. Black mentions that even the Romans burned sulfur to kill insects and pests, and in the 1600s, people were even using a mixture of honey and arsenic to kill ants. Black’s overall goal in this article is to make people realize we need to study the effects of these chemicals on the whole environment before we simply use them for the “next quick fix.” He mentions that…

about economy. Kamioka analyzes the meaning of Economy. He states that the Economy is the economy of nature, which is the whole life on the earth, their interaction and reasonable system (Kamioka 42). The nature has the life cycle: rain grows the trees, trees products fruits, birds eat fruits and birds carries the seeds. It…

The sense of place in Wideman’s Sent For You Yesterday, Gay’s Provinces of Night, and Chute’s The Beans of Egypt Maine transcends physical boundaries and is “seen heard, smelled, imagined, love, hated, feared, revered, enjoyed or avoided.” In Sent For You Yesterday, generations of Homewood inhabitants unconsciously become products of their landscape. The novel 's characters—Brother Tate, Doot Carl, Albert Wilkes (among others)—become manifestations of the history and experiences of Homewood, as…

mountains is typically level and flat. The land also looks like dirt. There are no trees or plants. It does not rain very frequently in Las Vegas. This is okay for them because they do not need rain that often. Muscle Shoals is just the opposite. It rains frequently. The region that we live in thrives on rain, so that the farmers may grow their crops proficiently. Las Vegas does not grow corn, cotton, or soy beans, as we do. The environment in Las Vegas is very different from Muscle Shoals.…

Longhouse religion where they believed in a creator of everything, and good and bad spirits. Bad spirits that brought bad luck and sickness had to be scared away by Medicine Mask societies that wore masks of living basswood trees. The Iroquois grew the three sisters which are corn, bean, and squash along with other fruits and vegetables. They also hunted fish, birds, and other animals they could find. The types of houses the Iroquois lived in were called longhouses like their religion. They…

americans to new produce such as horses, chickens, goats, dogs, grape vines, onions, sugar cane, wheat, and apple trees. Due to this, the lifestyle and diet of a native american had more components. Horses were used as an efficient transportation instead of walking on feet as they did before horses were brought to the Americas. Their staple meal of mainly starch-based foods(potatoes, corn, beans, etc) was introduced with a variety of meat, fruits, and vegetables. A trade route was opened up…