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🔺 History  :   The indigenous peoples of North American first collected, processed, and used maple syrup. European settlers adopted the practice and gradually refined production methods. In the 1970s, technological improvements further refined the process of making syrup. So Native Americans were the first to harvest and boil the sap of the maple tree into a thick syrup—a process that was documented and adopted by early settlers in the 1600s. As archeological evidence suggests, maple tree sap was processed into syrup long before Europeans arrived in the region.  Perhaps the Europeans, who eventually settled there, actually learned the refining process from the indigenous people who had been living in the land for centuries.   Legends exist about when maple syrup was first made, one of the more popular legends tells how maple sap was used instead of water to cook venison served to a tribal chief.   Another story of the Chippewa and Ottawa people tells that one of their gods saw that