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Braiding the Sacred: A Gathering of Corn and People
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2017
- Produced by Braiding the Sacred and Reynaldo Morales. Manzanita Fund, Cultural Conservancy, South Central Farmers, Health and Education Fund, Wise Women Gathering Place.
Produced at Oneida Nation, Northeast Wisconsin. 2016
I'm highly inspired by the traditional uses of corn, and the varieties grown by native people. I found some Hopi Blue corn seeds, and have been growing it for two years now. I live in a remote area where nobody grows corn, in NW Arizona. I'm still learning, and I hope to continue learning everything I can about sustainable agriculture and preserving these crops. Thank you to the Oneida people for your work and care for our history and future.
I've been using the three sisters using permaculture rain harvesting techniques with only minor irrigation in the late spring, while other areas have been grown completely dependent on the monsoons to germinate and survive. I can concur that this blue corn is incredibly drought resistant and reliable, and I will be continuing to grow this corn and collecting seeds. I started with 48 kernels 2 years ago. I now have enough to plant multiple acres. I've never felt more compelled to act and work towards a goal as I am to preserve the Hopi Blue corn. I would love to find some other varieties of squash and beans that may have traditionally been grown alongside the Hopi Blue corn.
@@GemstonePhilosophy Look into getting the book called WEEDS. Idr author's name at moment but the cover is WEEDS just like that. Copyright 1940's I think. Easy simple read. There is a wild crawling vine, Morning Glory? You've probably seen them. Those little pink petaled climbers that wrap around everything. They have deep roots and break subsoil making shallower corn roots able to go deeper and branch out with hairlike roots. As a child he knew a farmer that let the nuisance vine do its thing and had superior corn. We are only beginning to relearn old wisdom. We're doomed if we don't. I'm not going to blame my ignorant city European ancestors just coz they were White. Let's be careful not to do that. They were victims as much as we are. Look into the history of the latter 1700's early 1800's when the feudal system ended in 1830. Medieval cottage industries and farming gave way to the Industrial Age. The Irish starved to death in the great Potato Famine. I hate with vehemence what happened to our Natives as much as I hate what happened in Europe to mine. Even in the new world they worked long hours including children in factories. Families crammed into two room apts. with dirty garbage strewn cities. If you were lucky to own a horse because you had a cart for market, you brought the horse in! No joke. Memoirs of an Italian immigrant woman of her Chicago childhood1870's. If we are going to make it as one people, we have to stop blaming. We are only more recently able to read and write. Europeans who had long been separated from natural wisdom and so many illiterate, thought nothing of dynamiting the Chicago River or is it the North River...anyway it was done by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1920's to open a passage into Lake Michigan for sewage!!! Now there's carp in it. 🛌
@@GemstonePhilosophy I really got off in a tangent but it's all so complicated.
@@debrapaulino918 I appreciate the knowledge you shared with me, so thank you. Morning glories grow quite abundantly in my area, and I have been collecting small amounts of seed, but will be sure to try this. I notice that morning glories will grow, sometimes dominantly over any other flora, in super alkaline and even salty soil. I could imagine the morning glory could be rather effective at breaking hard clay layers and would look great trellised up the corn with some legumes, or as an additional groundcover/weed suppressant. I believe datura was sometimes grown and consumed with morning glory seed as a sacred ceremony, but I do frequently see them growing together, and often in rather disturbed or barren sandy soil. Regardless, both plants prove to be exceptional nursery plants, whereas they grow vigorously in barren soil and create soil structure and microbiology. Admittedly, they do seem to like a fair amount of water to do well (growing dominantly in swales and other persistently wet soils), but can tolerate extreme elements nonetheless.
I will also see if I can find this book. Probably won't be pulling out my bank card to buy it, but mind you, I have dozens of high quality gardening books, and have studied native flora across the western US. I'm not particularly "educated", but I'm experienced and knowledgeable. I always love to obtain good information, especially regarding traditional knowledge that should be preserved. You can guarantee this next grow season, I will be incorporating morning glory into my garden and saving more seeds.
I've gone on a tangent as well now, so no need to feel embarrassed.
Beautiful... "The Seed Remembers" Albert Toops
Carl Barnes Turpin, Oklahoma
Barriers of protection for the genetics of the seed.
Bagging the tassels on your corn stalks with not deter cross pollination because it is the silk on the ears that capture the pollen.
The green corn! Beautiful like jade.
My great great grandfather fled from the trail of tears, ending the line of that heritage. And my family never spoke of it and so forgot many things over the generations. I found my own way of reconnecting with the earth through growing my own food, and it is truly spiritual.
One my GGgrandpa was left as a baby by his family while they was on the trail of tears & Ggrandma said her parents was of the long house people's.
All good blessings to you 🙏 ✨️
I just spoke with Jonathan Buffalo on the phone yesterday! I'm working on a project for a college and was referred to him for more information
This is so awesome & definitely needs to happen & expand.
Unfortunately, a lot of the food has been ruined by those who think they know mother than Mother Earth or the Creator & is poisoning all. Many can learn from your community. Excellent to see this.
I miss corn soup and fry bread which is crazy since I live in the heart of iroquois country in western ny. Can't find it anywhere.
please find oneida market online now
It is so beautiful
I love you all very much
Like this.
Thank you!
Colonial food is poison to all of us. "My heart has been on the ground" since 1973 when I was made aware of it by a good human being I'm grateful to.
I bet most people don't know that all sweet corn in use today around the world originated from the fields of Geneseo NY. The land of the Seneca's.
Technically maize was originated from Mexico, and they started domesticating several varieties such as Teozinte. These were sent to Peru for further research in microclimates and highlands and to eliminate high contents of fructose and enrich other features. They were return to Mexico who shared them to some North American Native Nations through ancestral ceremonial channels. Peruvian Andean Quechua seed researchers came up with more than 300 varieties of corn for the world. Their goal of research and diversify natural breeding and biofortification of thousands of organic species for other Indigenous societies was interrupted by colonization.
Oh how I wish for some of your corn soup 😊
Can I get any seeds? Please let me know if I can 🙏all good blessings to you 🙏
It WOULD be such a blessing to have old world seeds & ways...
I would love my sacred baby corn plants. They would own the best spot in my garden. And keep them pure. And love them. 🙏☝️💯
@everyone
I would love to be a part of this, this is a dream of mine to live as a community, & grow our foods from the old seeds, & in the old ways. Is there anyone or a place where i can learn to grow harvest and save old seeds and the old ways... My soul misses the family community ways. Thank you for any help.
How would one get SEEDs, of the old days?
I always talk to my plants & my animals.
Mist people look at me funny I don't mind that they do.😂
@@hands2hearts-seeds2feedamu83. @crystaldragon471
@glynnphillips9703
Thank you very much for your comments. As you know the extractive, non sharing commercial control of plant genetic resources for food and medicine has changed humanity with multiple negative implications. Since the creation of the Intellectual Property System around 1607 by the Virginia Commonwealth (encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/colonial-virginia/) with the intention of in-masse control and commodification of food and medicine and all of wrongly called 'RAW" material associated to domesticated plant communities for agriculture, food and medicine (Wild Crop Relatives). Is with them that these plants were food and were nutritious. Colonial interests were on enforcing and investing their military and mercenary force on controlling all plants first with the highest yield potential that can be sold and profited somewhere else. The barley, corn, potato and rice food-based regime of our times, taking human lives in parallel with a hyper development of a global pharmaceutical industry that uses the same materials. These artificial "markets" supported by enormous private research funding and industry investment, have been created regardless of human and animal health of nutrition, and regardless of environmental impacts on non-human populations due to pesticides and fertilizers. These external agents and the violence of their neocolonial intervention have created multiple impacts for ecosystems, rivers, streams, wildlife and pollinators. Indigenous Peoples were legally stolen of plants genetic resources in which they invested thousands and hundreds of years in research. In Peru, the city of Caral, among the oldest in the world, offered archeological evidence of the domestication of less than 20 of the current food staples around the world. No Indigenous Peoples in that region ever benefited from it.
The sharing benefits of the use of those plant genetic resources that most world citizens would see as just Seeds, is indeed the most contentious issue of our time. It is deciding all what happens to our Earth, environmentally, in climate patterns, in the chemical pressures over ecosystems, the pressures on oceans for food and agrochemical industries. These industries of extraction, research, accession, digitization, had even converted into algorithms and digital sequence information (DSI) about these plants that were created more than 5,000 years ago, and are today the major food staples of our world. With the peoples who domesticated and developed these plant genetic resources in mega diverse countries and regions, living today in poverty and displaced. These civilizations, that by all means were portrayed as subhumans, uncivilized, outstripped of all no property and therefore no human rights. So, the destruction of infrastructure, the desperate attempts to make legal the territorial appropriation from entire civilizations legal to their colonial eyes in the land competition with other colonial powers. For their own legal reasons and records as powers, colonial monarchies had to appear legit and clear for the official history and curriculums in the making. This is the context of what is behind the curtains seeds issues in Indigenous Peoples collective rights take place.
If you refer the opportunities to collect original, organic seeds, I would suggest to establish a legal/technical petition of private in-vitro collections. These private collectors are obligated to share. Returning our world to these seeds and re-certify organic land is a priority. In my next experience, Watch this documentary I produced with this collective: th-cam.com/video/EScfVBAxAow/w-d-xo.html, the Haudenosaunee Peoples and other members of US Tribes gathered around a land, and approached it as a collective. Then, they managed the legal and technical issues and worked together and harvested together. They found out that they were able to share, with no money involved. today in 2023, in simple trade of goods. Yes, we can. I am convinced we are fortunate Indigenous Peoples are still here.