Use to show that maize belonged to living social and ceremonial systems, not merely to a chain of commodity transfer.
This evidence was selected to repair the Indigenous agriculture, land, and dispossession gap in the American whiskey history narrative.
In the guide’s agriculture section, corn, beans, and squash are the Three Sisters. Women held major gardening responsibilities, and corn appears in food, ceremony, material culture, and continuing Haudenosaunee life.
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Relationship to the Natural World; PDF page 13 of 24
Rendered page inspected. Printed page 11, not 12; PDF ordinal 13. Paraphrase checked against preserved guide.
Whiskey Excerpts Database (USWA)
Evidence
The reviewed agriculture page links corn, beans, and squash with women’s gardening responsibilities, food, ceremony, material culture, and continuing Haudenosaunee life.
Context and use
Use to explain maize as part of a knowledge system rather than a mere commodity.