{"id":31366,"date":"2024-07-01T16:17:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/?page_id=31366"},"modified":"2024-07-15T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T22:54:33","slug":"four-gailhac-hill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/the-access-belonging-inclusion-diversity-and-equity-hub\/truth-racial-healing-and-transformation-trht\/the-mu-path\/path-locations\/four-gailhac-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"4. Gailhac Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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QUESTION:<\/strong> A tree on this hill produces a liquid that can be used to prepare and preserve food. Which one?<\/span><\/p>\n

ANSWER:<\/strong> The red maple<\/b>\u2019s sap is used as a food preservative!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Traditionally, Indigenous people have used maple syrup to cure meats, as a sweetener for bitter medicines and as an anesthetic. Maple sugar also contains nutritious minerals, including phosphorous, magnesium, potassium, iron and calcium. Maple syrup was also used as a trade item in the form of dried, portable sugar slabs.\u201d <\/span>\u2013<\/span>Tony Tekaroniake Evans (Mohawk<\/span>)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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WATCH<\/b> Gathering Maple Sugar the Traditional Anishinaabe Way.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

READ<\/b> Decolonizing Maple Syrup<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n