Our Corn Is Still Standing: Indigenous Foodways and Identity in New England

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Elizabeth Ann Berton-Reilly

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In the late spring we plant the corn and beans and squash. They’re not just plants- we call them the three Sisters. We plant them together, three kinds of seed in one hill. They want to be together with each other, just as we Indians want to be together with each other. So long as the three sisters are with us, we know we will never starve. The creator sends them to us each year. We celebrate them now – Onondaga Chief Louis Farmer (LaDuke 2005:153).

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