LRG! BIRCH BARK GIFT BASKET - NATIVE AMERICAN FOODS! Start Price USD 129.99 Current Price USD 129.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, November 19, 2008 End Time Friday, December 19, 2008 Location Leech Lake Indian Reservation See more about 'LRG! BIRCH BARK GIFT BASKET - NATIVE AMERICAN FOODS! ' Description Minnesota Chippewa Tribal I.D. # 408B23246 Customer service: 1-800-484-2347 Pin# 7580 Don't forget to check out the Vintage & Sale category in our store! This sale is for our large birch bark gift basket. It will come filled with delicious Native American foods! You will recieve: 3 lbs. of our hand harvested wild rice 1 lb. of oak roasted hominy 1 - 12.5 oz box of delicious fry bread mix 1 box of golden cornbread mix 1 - 8 oz. bottle of pure Minnesota maple syrup 2 - 3 oz jars of jam - 1 blueberry and 1 strawberry an 8" handmade birch bark canoe trimmed with fresh red willow sticks All will rest on aspen wood shavings, sprinkled with fresh red pine cones set in a beautiful large birch bark wild rice basket. The basket measures a huge 19" X 15"! It is sewn with sinew and trimmed with willow sticks. Our wild rice is gathered the old way, in a canoe. This traditional Ojibwe gathering rite has been used by our ancestors for generations. Please don't confuse this with paddy grown "wild rice". They look and taste completely different! The much darker (often black) paddy rice is machine planted and machine harvested, resulting in a bland tasting rice that may take up to 3 times longer to cook and yeilds a lot less per pound. Many rice paddys are sprayed with herbicides. Our hand harvested wild rice grows naturally on the lakes and river beds in Northern Minnesota on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation. This mouth watering nutty taste cannot be compared to the mass produced paddy rice. The light color of wild rice indicates quality wild rice. We do not mix our batches of wild rice!! All of the rice you recieve in your order will be from the same lake or river bed. Assuring your wild rice will cook evenly and have the same quality taste. Our wild rice is wood parched. By using this method versus propane (which drys the rice) our wild rice is left more moist, resulting in a fluffier, more flavorful, faster cooking rice. If stored in a dry place, wild rice will keep forever! Our bread mixes will come with complete easy instructions. We will include a hominy recipe and a wild rice  recipes. If you choose this as a gift we will ship it to the address of your choice and include a hand written card with your message. We have several sizes of gift baskets on auction and in our e-bay store. If you would like a custom gift basket just e-mail us. I have been harvesting wild rice seasonally for 34 years. If you have any questions feel free to e-mail me. Priority shipping is calculated by zip code below. Insurance is $2.20 and is required. Please check out our other auctions and our e-bay store. Miigwetch!! (Thanks!) BINESHII Click on our logo and e-mail us. Place a Bid!