Sagamité is a Native American stew made from hominy, cornmeal, or Indian corn[1][2] and grease (from animal fat). Additional ingredients may include vegetables, wild rice, brown sugar, beans, smoked fish or animal brains.[1][2]
Caddo sagamité was thick soup made from corn flour, that had previously been parched and ground into a fine meal. Beans and acorn flour could be added.[3] The Caddos served the stew in large earthenware pots for crowds during ceremonies.[4]
Sagamité was used in ceremonies to celebrate welcomed guests by tribes such as the Peoria, Huron, Osage, and early Caddo tribes of Arkansas.[3] According to the Illinois State Museum, the Peoria fed sagamité to explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet during the explorers’ 1673 journey to the Mississippi River, as Marquette mentions in his journal of the voyage.[5]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Rumble, Victoria R. (August 11, 2009). Soup Through the Ages: A Culinary History with Period Recipes. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. ISBN 9780786453900.
- ^ a b "Sagamité". 64 Parishes. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ a b Harrington, 170
- ^ Harrington, 249
- ^ "Odd Wisconsin Archive: Beer and Sweet Corn". wisconsinhistory.org. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013.
References
- Harrington, Mark Raymond (1920). Certain Caddo Sites in Arkansas. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. p. 308. ISBN 978-1143324321.
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