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'Seeds of resistance': Ponca corn planted in path of Keystone XL Pipeline

18.6.19

'Seeds of resistance': Ponca corn planted in path of Keystone XL Pipeline: By Kevin Abourezk
NELIGH, Nebraska – As a light rain turned the soil beneath their feet soft, nearly 65 water protectors and farmers stepped forward from a long line and dropped corn seeds into freshly ploughed earth here Saturday.
As they did, some said silent prayers. Some held the corn seeds up to the sky and whispered into the wind. Others talked and laughed with one another.
For the sixth time, they gathered on Art and Helen Tanderups’ farm in northeast Nebraska to plant sacred Ponca corn, or “seeds of resistance.”

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