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The Indigenous tradition of creating maple sugar

(Amanda Beland/WBUR)
Amanda Beland/WBUR
(Amanda Beland/WBUR)

Maple syrup making is an ancient tradition that started with Indigenous communities in the Northeastern part of what is now North America. Many of those communities also made maple sugar from those harvests for thousands of years.

WBUR’s Amanda Beland reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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