Record #:

44219

Author(s):

Liles, Lindsey

Abstract:

This article discusses the ways in which corn is significant to various indigenous tribes in North Carolina. Nancy Strickland Chavis, a member of the Lumbee tribe, kick-started a project in which she and a few others helped other tribes reclaim their corn that had once been lost to them.

Source:

Garden and Gun (NoCar AP 2 G247), Vol. 18 Issue 5, October-November 2024, p62-64, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Lumbee Indians--North Carolina--Green Corn Ceremony; UNC Pembroke--Museum of the Southeast American Indian; Ancestral Corn Reclaimation Project (Nancy Strickland Chavis); Corn