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Glass gem corn. Glass Gem Corn is a Native American heirloom flint corn, or maize. It is a variety of what people call "Indian corn" and is considered unique due to its rainbow coloring. [1] [2] The corn variety was created in the 1980s by ancestral corn breeder, Carl "White Eagle" Barnes, an Oklahoma native of half Cherokee, half Scotch-Irish ...
Cornplanter. Guyasutha (uncle). John Abeel III (about 1752–February 18, 1836) [1] known as Gaiänt'wakê ( Gyantwachia – "the planter") or Kaiiontwa'kon ( Kaintwakon – "By What One Plants") in the Seneca language and thus generally known as Cornplanter, was a Dutch - Seneca chief warrior and diplomat of the Seneca people.
The Three Sisters ( Spanish: tres hermanas) are the three main agricultural crops of various indigenous peoples of Central and North America: squash, maize ("corn"), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans ). In a technique known as companion planting, the maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling ...
Plant in blocks instead. If you are planting sweet corn, either plant it 250 feet away from the Indian corn or plant a variety that won’t bloom at the same time. You don’t want pollen from ...
But the story behind Glass Gem is just as remarkable. It begins with one man, Carl Barnes, who set out to explore his Native American roots. The history was largely retold by Barnes' protegee ...
Maize / meɪz / ( Zea mays ), also known as corn in North American and Australian English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native Americans planted it alongside beans and squashes in the Three Sisters polyculture.
Flint corn. Flint corn ( Zea mays var. indurata; also known as Indian corn or sometimes calico corn) is a variant of maize, the same species as common corn. [1] Because each kernel has a hard outer layer to protect the soft endosperm, it is likened to being hard as flint, hence the name. [2] The six major types of corn are dent corn, flint corn ...
Tisquantum (/ t ɪ s ˈ k w ɒ n t əm /; c. 1585 (±10 years?) – November 30, 1622 O.S.), more commonly known as Squanto (/ ˈ s k w ɒ n t oʊ /), was a member of the Wampanoag Patuxet tribe best known for being an early liaison between the Native American population in Southern New England and the Mayflower Pilgrims who made their settlement at the site of Tisquantum's former summer ...