Source: Atlas Obscura
The tiny, purple saskatoon berry played a key role in Native Americans’ and early settlers’ diets and commerce. Often dried and pounded into cakes or added to other essential foods such as pemmican, saskatoon berries were so prized for their sweetness that, according to one account from 1900, ten cakes of these tasty gems were worth one…
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