How Native Americans Are Saving Vegetables from Extinction | eJOY English
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- White corn is one of our relatives.
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We feel that she is alive, she wants
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to do the job that she told our creator she would do,
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is to feed our people and nourish them.
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The work that we do, if we didn't have this,
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we would lose everything.
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- For a few thousand years, Potawatomi people
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have been incredible farmers and have grown
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lots and lots of varieties of crops.
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The seed library is a place where
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we take crops which are disappearing,
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rare and endangered Potawatomi vegetables,
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and we grow them out, and we restore them
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and put them back in the hands of native farmers.
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George Martin carries the Potawatomi tradition
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of making ndamnabo, or corn soup.
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In our seed library, we have 76 unique
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varieties of corn.
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Each one has its own cultural identity,
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its own unique flavor.
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- After a while, when we stir it,
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you'll see how tough it gets to stir it.
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- Our corn is a lot different than
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other corns which are out there.
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If we didn't have the seed library,
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these traditional food, might be gone forever.
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Within our seed library, 80% of the varieties
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which we take care of are rare or nearly extinct.
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Some of the varieties we care for here,
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we're the only place in the world which has them.
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This one's gonna be a nice one.
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Four years ago, when we first got nugasignuga,
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or White Flower Corn, we only had a half a canning jar,
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a very small amount of seed.
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We've grown it every year since, and now
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we have enough that we may have 100 bushels full.
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That's enough that next year we can
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plant six or seven acres of just this corn.
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That's a huge increase.
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- It is important, that's what we were sent down here for,
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to take care of Mother Earth and all her creations here,
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and that corn realizes that.
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We're back using it again.
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You know, we're gonna use it in a feast.
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It makes the corn feel good, after being
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used by our people again.
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It’s done, it’s ready to eat.
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Rare strains of corn, beans, squash and other native crops might have been lost forever.
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