Deb Echo-Hawk and Ronnie O’Brien, leaders of the Pawnee Seed Preservation Project, participate in a blue corn harvest in October 2019. (Credit: Erin Green/Courtesy to Crux.) Listen Ronnie O’Brien, a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Great Platte River Road Archway Cultural Education Director Ronnie O’Brien roasts eagle corn Monday afternoon in the archway earth lodge. She hopes to send 20 cups of dried kernels to Oklahoma, where ...

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 ...