SHELTON, Neb. (KOLN) - Several people across the state are part of a project to grow corn the Pawnee nation once produced while living on the Great Plains. When the Pawnee Nation was forced from its ...

Few seeds from pure strains of Pawnee corn remained by the 21st century. Echo-Hawk had grown eagle corn 20 years earlier when she lived in Colorado, but raccoons took a big share of her crop. "The ...

HASTINGS, Neb. | When the Pawnee Nation was forced from its homeland in Nebraska to a reservation in Oklahoma in the 1870s, they lost a lot more than their home and their lives. "There were 12,000, ...

Imagine if you had to move from your family’s centuries-old homeland to a place with climate and natural resources that don’t fit your livelihood of farming and hunting. Approximately 2,000 Pawnee ...

Efforts to grow corn in Oklahoma had not been successful, so Pawnee elders gave O'Brien some of their precious few remaining kernels to plant in Nebraska soil. Since then, Nebraska and Oklahoma ...

Pawnee seed keepers work with Nebraska farmers to revive their sacred and ancient corn. In Seed Warriors, filmmaker Rebekka Schlichting follows a group of seed keepers as they work to regain food ...

Sacred eagle corn, with purple splotches resembling eagle wings, was the first and possibly most important Pawnee corn recovery success. The “seed sisters” connection between Ronnie O’Brien, then The ...