Tag: Cicadas

Wondrous, fascinating and tasty: Cicadas
From the NY Daily News: “The Onondaga Nation celebrates cicadas, which saved them from starvation at the hands of then–General George Washington and the Continental Army, which waged a 1779 campaign to destroy Native crops and food. “It was a terrible time for our people,” Onondaga Nation citizen Betty Lyons, executive director of the nonprofit…

