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Indigenous Foods

Native people live and thrive in the Upper Midwest and eat traditional foods like manoomin as well as newer foods that evolved from the loss of their traditional lands and foods, like fry bread. Learn more about past and present Native American food and foodways with these books from the Water Library!

Book Display: Women in Science

By Risa Stiegler. This spring, we received a few new gorgeous picture books for the library that feature two women trailblazers in the science of water pollution. The Girl who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist features Ellen Swallow (Richards), the first woman admitted to MIT, who coined the term ecology to describe the …