Noemi’s Reviews > Maple Syrup: A Short History of Canada's Sweetest Obsession > Status Update

"There is a crushing irony in this saga.Canadians trumpet maple syrup production as an emblematic Canadian pursuit.At the same time, Canadian government policy aimed to wipe out the culture of Indigenous People[...] But government policy took away the First Peoples' ability to perform that most "Canadian" of rituals: making syrup.[...][Indeginous people] protested restriction on their spring access to the sugar bush"