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MAIZE AMONG THE EASTERN TRIBES. Before turning our attention to the Wisconsin Indians, it may be well to take a glance at the eastern tribes which were more or less related to them. About A. D. 1003, after a winter in Vinland, Thorwald found an island far to the westward on which was a corn-crib of wood. Other Northmen are reported to have found corn in later voyages, but the identity of the grain is not established. When Cartier, in 1535, sailed up St. Law- rence River he found the Indians at ...Hochelaga (Montreal) cultivating large fields of maize, and storing the grain in their houses. Champlain in 1610 said that maize was the chief food 70 THE USE OF MAIZE of the Indians around Lakes Erie and Ontario, and that they stored it in large quantities, enough to last several years. When Champlain ascended Ottawa River he found Indian corn fields, the plants being then about four inches high, and pounded meal was one of the foods set before him at an Indian feast. The Iroquois raised maize in large quantities and kept it in store from year to year.
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