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Indian Folklore Related to Corn
Maize
in Oral Traditions
Provides the origin of corn from the perspective of several contrasting
Indian traditions
How Corn Came
to the Earth
Tells how Mother-Corn brings corn to the Earth
The
Lakota Sioux: The Gift of Corn
How an old hermit discovered corn and how to preserve it
The Hermit,
or The Gift of Corn
Another version of the Sioux tale explaining how corn was found and preserved
The Story
of the Corn Husk Doll
An Iroquois story telling why cornhusk dolls have no face
The
Coming of the Corn
Traditional Cherokee story telling how corn came to be
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