{"id":27082,"date":"2022-08-23T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=27082"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:58:10","slug":"ranco-speaks-to-atlas-obscura-about-the-indigenous-origins-of-maine-clam-bakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2022\/08\/23\/ranco-speaks-to-atlas-obscura-about-the-indigenous-origins-of-maine-clam-bakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranco speaks to Atlas Obscura about the Indigenous origins of Maine clam bakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13286 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2017\/07\/Hands_clam_sq-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Clammer\" width=\"203\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2017\/07\/Hands_clam_sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2017\/07\/Hands_clam_sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2017\/07\/Hands_clam_sq-105x105.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2017\/07\/Hands_clam_sq-317x316.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2017\/07\/Hands_clam_sq.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,203px\" \/>Darren Ranco, chair of Native American Programs, coordinator of Native American Research and Faculty Fellow at the Mitchell Center, was interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/indigenous-origins-maine-lobster-bake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlas Obscura<\/a> for an article about the Indigenous origins of the clam bake. \u201cI think there is a popular conception that [clam bakes] are a European adoption of indigenous traditions, a tradition that, for coastal indigenous people, would have been part of a larger communal meal based on shellfish collecting, and cooking in a pit on the beach,\u201d Ranco said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Ranco, chair of Native American Programs, coordinator of Native American Research and Faculty Fellow at the Mitchell Center, was interviewed by Atlas Obscura for an article about the Indigenous origins of the clam bake. \u201cI think there is a popular conception that [clam bakes] are a European adoption of indigenous traditions, a tradition that, 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