Abstract
For centuries corn has been an integral agricultural and culturally significant food crop across North and South America and the regions’ Indigenous communities. In New York and Vermont, tribes belonging to the Haudenosaunee and Wabanaki Confederacies have inhabited the St. Lawrence, Mohawk, and Champlain Valleys for centuries. Each of these confederacies are alliances of multiple nations each having several tribes distributed across various parts of the states. While their individual histories and specific cultural practices and traditions may differ from one another, these communities all depended on corn for both cultural and subsistence reasons: corn is one of the crops in the traditional companion planting termed the Three Sisters in which corn is interplanted with beans and squash in a mound of soil; in Haudenosaunee cultures, one of the 13 annual celebrations is dedicated to corn; and traditional culinary dishes and crafts using many forms of corn are integral parts of everyday life.
Publication Date
2-2024
Recommended Citation
Darby, Heather, "Revitalizing Northern Flint Corn in the Northeast: Evaluating Northern Flint Corn Germplasm from Agronomic and Nutritional Perspectives" (2024). Northwest Crops & Soils Program. 529.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/nwcsp/529