Cherokee Traditions: Kanuchi 

He’s probably referring to shag bark hickory nuts. We eat a lot of them here. Look for the shaggy bark and nut husks on the ground to identify the tree. We avoid pig nut hickory, though it is edible it is not as good . You’ll need a sturdy nutcracker though, this is no store bough English walnut, lol.

@@rosescott9299 Wado!

Pecans is hickorys and good eating.

I agree because I am one of the so many my grandmother was full blood but no one would allow her to talk about it . I know she had a card stating that she was Cherokee . But like most nine year olds did not pay enough attention to remember the detail on the card . now it is to late

Mockernut?

I despise the rolls and the whole blood quantum aspect we are not dogs and for a government to keep us from our culture just because they want us to disappear is disgusting. We did not get to choose weather or not our ancestors were taken from their home or not and it saddens me greatly. Saying my 2nd great grandma is burried in Oaklahoma in a cherokee cemetary I think thats one ancestor that will be difficult to find the rest are in Nevada burried on the white persons side. The sad bit is thats not even the Tsalagi way of tribe affiliations prior to colonization :/ I don't know if anyone will see this, but no matter who says "you aren't" i know who i am and i won't let a colonizer dictate that nor should anyone else. I wish this brainwashing and keeping system in place could be released so that those of us yearning to be reunited with our culture could without all the jumping through hoops. Blood quantum=continued genocide native is native hope no matter how far the generations go people hold onto that as you can't breed a lineage out!

I'm so thankful my oldest son learned from his granny(my mom)on how to make kanuchi & learned some medicine roots, he's now passing on to my grands, him & his wife have 6 kids together, ages 21 to 12 year olds, they're all learning how to make kanuchi balls, in fact 5 kid(daughter) made it for them for their Thanksgiving meal this yr. it was so good, I'm teaching them the traditional meals, food from the wild as well. So so proud of my grands that they want to learn, my 18 year old granddaughter made her 1st batch of Dogheads by herself the other day, she loves them, of course I was there for questions, dogheads are basically boiled cornbread, the juice from it, can be drink, as is or with sugar, so so good. Tradition Matters.

Yes, there is about 2 to 3 rounds of boiling water and straining the liquid into the rice. Hope that answers your question!