UPDATE: Join us on Sunday, Oct. 18 (1-6PM) for a Ponca sacred corn-husking party! We’ll be pulling down the husks on the corn we harvested last month to help with the drying process, before we host a corn-shucking party next month to take the seeds off of the cob. Sign-up on the form below. WHAT: […]

A seed of corn means many things–food, bio-fuel, coating for medicine, bio-plastic, feed for cattle.  A seed of corn has also become a cherished symbol of our collective resistance to tarsands and the irresponsible oil production that is risking our land, property rights, climate and water. Last weekend, members of the Camp family from the Ponca Nation […]

  In the spring of 2014, families from the Ponca Nation collaborated with Bold Nebraska and Nebraska farmer Art Tanderup — whose land crosses both the proposed path of the Keystone XL pipeline, and the historic Ponca Trail of Tears — to hand-plant several acres of sacred Ponca corn on the tribe’s ancestral homeland in […]