| Reference Source | Reference Type | Archival Data | Comments |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | Use - Food |
"atassamina", plum |
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| Kinietz, V. 1938 | Use - Material |
A game is played with plum stones (pits). "Sansawingee" means bowls, which is the name of the game. A wooden bowl and six plum stones, painted black on one side, white on the other. The player scores if he turns up five of the same color, after tossing. "This counts him half of the amount bet, and six of the same color wins it." Betting is often involved. |
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| Kenton, E. 1925 | Use - Material |
White plums were eaten. "We therefore landed, and entered their Cabins, where they offered us meat from wild cattle and bear's grease, with white plums, which are very good". |
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| Gatschet, A.S. ca. 1895 | Use - Food |
"tassaminia, plum" |
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| Thwaites, R.G. (ed.) 1903 | Use - Food |
Plums are gathered and preserved. "The savages gather quantities of wild plums and grapes . . . ". |
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| Gonella, M.P 2003-2006 | Use - Food |
The plum stone game is played at Miami Tribe of Oklahoma's language camps |
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| Rafert, S. 1989 | Use - Food |
"Wild plums were here, they've always been here. . . .My mother even made jelly out of 'em. But the old people ate them just right off the tree ripe. They're quite good." |
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| Tippman, D. 1999 | Use - Food |
Plum fruits are made into plum wine. Jim Strack knew a lady that worked at a beauty shop near him that made wine out of wild plumbs. This woman told his wife, Mary Ellen, how to make it, calling it "plumb dumb" wine. "You could get 'plum dumb' on it real easy!" The fruits were first collected, mashed and sugar put over them. Then water was added until it covered them mashed plums and the mixture was refrigerated. In a short while it became quite strong. |
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| Gonella, M.P 2003-2006 | Use - Food |
Friuits pitted, cooked and eaten. "they're tart, so add extra sugar".
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| Gatschet, A.S. ca. 1895 | Use - Material |
In the traditional story of Young Thunder William Pecongah, he describes the crops he had growing on his land 160 acres of reserve in central Indiana. "There I planted corn, wheat, potatoes, peas, tobacco, beans, apple trees, pumpkins, watermelons, cucumbers, onions, hay, straw, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, turnips, tomatoes, pawpaws, cherries, strawberries, plums, blackhaws, peaches, walnut trees, pecans, hickory nuts, barley and rye." |
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| Kerr, J. 1835 | Use - Food |
"tafumeneke" |
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| Anonymous 1837 | Use - Food |
plums |
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| National Museum of the American Indian 2003 | Use - Customs |
There is a set of Myaamia dice made from fruit pits possibly wild plum housed at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C. |
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| Bush, L. L 1996 | Use - Food |
Human charred Prunus sp. floral material recovered from an early Myaamia Village excavation at the forks of the Wabash River (Fort Wayne), 1795-1812 (Ehler Site). |
| Reference Source | Reference Type | Data | Comments |
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| Rafert, S. 1989 | Habitat | They grow best "In fence rows and the the edge of clearings", not along the river, but on higher, well-drained areas. |
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| Gonella, M.P 2003-2006 | Horticultural Info | For harvesting fruits, put down a tablecloth first and shake the tree. |
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| Gleason, H.A. and Cronquist, A. 1991 | Habitat | Occurs in moist woods, roadsides and fencerows throughout eastern and western Myaamia lands. |
| Reference Source | Reference Type | Data | Comments |
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| Kerr, J. 1835 | "tasaminic, peaches" |