Nebraska volunteers and Pawnee people from Oklahoma were at Ficke Cattle Company near Pleasant Dale Oct. 12 to harvest three acres of blue flour corn. Other Nebraska-grown corn varieties were ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pawnee's efforts to preserve their sacred, ancestral corn. Members of the Pawnee Nation united with Nebraska farmers to preserve the tribe’s ancestral corn. Sacred to their heritage, the corn can ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The main takeaways from the nation's latest official head count. HASTINGS, Neb. — Electa Hare-RedCorn pulled back the husk from the ear and studied the multi-colored kernels, seeing so much more than ...

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 ...

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.