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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Zea is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family. The best-known species is Z. mays (variously called maize, corn, or Indian corn), one of the most important crops for human societies throughout much of the world. The four wild species are commonly known as teosintes and are native to Mesoamerica .
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 ...
Shoshone, Timbisha, and other Numic peoples. The Comanche / kəˈmæntʃi / or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ( Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people" [4]) is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma. [1]
Ute ( / ˈjuːt /) are the indigenous, or Native American people, of the Ute tribe and culture among the Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin. They had lived in sovereignty in the regions of present-day Utah and Colorado . In addition to their ancestral lands within Colorado and Utah, their historic hunting grounds extended into current-day ...