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Article: SIMPLY CRANTASTIC BITE-SIZE SERVINGS OF HISTORY ABOUT THE VENERABLE CRANBERRY.(Special Pullouts)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- November 21, 1999
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American Indians, long before the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, mixed deer meat and mashed cranberries to make pemmican - a convenience food that kept for long periods of time. They also believed that cranberries had medicinal value, so medicine men used them as an ingredient in poultices to draw poison from arrow wounds. Cranberry juice was a natural dye for rugs, blankets and clothing. The Leni-Lenape (Delaware) Indians in New Jersey used the cranberry as a symbol of peace.
Cranberries have had a variety of different names since their discovery. Eastern Indians called them ``sassamanesh.'' Cape Cod Pequots and the South Jersey Leni-Lenape tribes named them ...