North America Project
Scavenger Hunt

Blueberries

How many things can you find around your house that people had in North America before 1500 (before the European invasion)? If you don't find many around your house, how many can you find in a grocery store or a department store?
Here are some suggestions:

• Blueberries
• Corn (or anything with corn in it like popcorn, cornmeal, cornbread,
  polenta, grits, coke with corn syrup, tacos, or tortillas)
• Kidney beans, lima beans, string beans, navy beans
• Summer squash, zucchini, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, butternut squash, pumpkins
• Acorns
• Wild rice
• Maple syrup
>li>Buffalo (bison) meat

• Cranberries
• Turkey
• Sunflowers and sunflower seeds (or sunflower oil)
• Venison (deer meat)
• Salmon
• Trout
• Tobacco (don't smoke it, just find it!)
• Mustard greens
• Cactus fruit
• Sweet potatoes
• Drums
• Fish-hooks and fishing poles
• Canoe or kayak
• Snowshoes
• Pottery jars and bowls
• Baskets
• Lacrosse stick