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   Stephen Lasko

   January 23, 2016 • 9:11 pm

   Hi Rowen,
   Wow! Your blog is tremendous! Hi, my name is Stephen Lasko, and I am a market gardener from Davis, California. I have become gradually more and more interested in the heritage varieties of the Native Americans, and in their agricultural history, in general. I have noticed that many of the age-old varieties of many tribes are vulnerable, as only a solitary seed house or none at all preserves them. Mary Oliver, the nature poet, said in her tragically powerful poem Tecumseh, “there is sickness worse than the risk of death and that is forgetting what we should never forget.” I am hoping to help in the effort to preserve them, by perhaps starting a small seed conservancy garden, myself, or through some other means, which I haven’t entirely figured out yet. I was wondering if you knew of any varieties other than those that I have identified from the SSE books, RAFT list of foods at risk in North America, Fur Trade Museum garden, Native Seeds, and several other sources. I can seed you the rough draft of the excel list if you’d like. It includes crop, variety, tribe, seed source, no. of seed source, and notes headings. This is a fun undertaking for me, and I hope that some of this research can be of interest/use to others.

   Variety
   Amaranth Hopi Red Dye
   Amaranth Guarijio Indian Grain
   Amaranth Mountain Pima Greens
   Amaranth Paiute
   Amaranth Pueblo Red Dye
   Amaranth Southern Tepehuan Baute
   Amaranth Tarahumara Okite
   Amaranth Warihio
   Bean, Bush, Dry Algonquin Fisher
   Bean, Bush, Dry Algonquin Red Speckled
   Bean, Bush, Dry Anasazi
   Bean, Bush, Dry Arikara Yellow
   Bean, Bush, Dry Cherokee Cornfield
   Bean, Bush, Dry Cherokee Greasy
   Bean, Bush, Dry Chickashaw
   Bean, Bush, Dry Gila River Bean
   Bean, Bush, Dry Great Northern
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hidatsa Red
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hidatsa White
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hidatsa Shield Figure
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hopi Black
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hopi Black Pinto
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hopi Gold
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hopi Pink
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hopi Pinto
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hopi Purple String
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hopi Red
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hopi String Bean
   Bean, Bush, Dry Hopi White
   Bean, Bush, Dry Iroquois Brown
   Bean, Bush, Dry Iroquois Cranberry
   Bean, Bush, Dry Iroquois Nation
   Bean, Bush, Dry Lenape Cutshort/Indian Hannah
   Bean, Bush, Dry Mimbres Cave
   Bean, Bush, Dry Mohawk
   Bean, Bush, Dry Mohawk Early
   Bean, Bush, Dry Mohawk Vermont
   Bean, Bush, Dry Montezuma Red
   Bean, Bush, Dry Nez Perce
   Bean, Bush, Dry Odawa Indian
   Bean, Bush, Dry Odawa Soup
   Bean, Bush, Dry Onondonga Kidney
   Bean, Bush, Dry O’odham Pink
   Bean, Bush, Dry Pawnee
   Bean, Bush, Dry Pueblo Black
   Bean, Bush, Dry Six Nation
   Bean, Bush, Dry Seneca
   Bean, Bush, Dry Seneca Stripe
   Bean, Bush, Dry Seneca Tonawanda
   Bean, Bush, Dry Taos Pueblo Red
   Bean, Bush, Dry Tarahumara Azufrado
   Bean, Bush, Dry Tarahumara Bakamina
   Bean, Bush, Dry Tarahumara Canario
   Bean, Bush, Dry Tarahumara Capirame
   Bean, Bush, Dry Tarahumara Kakamira
   Bean, Bush, Dry Tarahumara Norteno
   Bean, Bush, Dry Tarahuma Reds
   Bean, Bush, Dry Tohono O’odham Pink
   Bean, Bush, Dry Tohono O’dham Yellow
   Bean, Bush, Dry Tonawanda Seneca
   Bean, Bush, Dry Zuni Gold
   Bean, Bush, Dry Zuni Shalako
   Bean, Pole, Dry 1500 Year Old Cave Bean
   Bean, Pole, Dry Apache Red
   Bean, Pole, Dry Blue Shackamaxon
   Bean, Pole, Dry Cherokee (Trail of Tears)
   Bean, Pole, Dry Cornplanter Purple
   Bean, Pole, Dry Gila
   Bean, Pole, Dry Hopi Beige
   Bean, Pole, Dry Hopi Light Yellow
   Bean, Pole, Dry Hopi Red
   Bean, Pole, Dry Hopi Yellow
   Bean, Pole, Dry Indian Hannah
   Bean, Pole, Dry Iroquois Flagg
   Bean, Pole, Dry Mohawk Valley
   Bean, Pole, Dry O’odham Vayos
   Bean, Pole, Dry Taos Brown
   Bean, Pole, Dry Taos Red
   Bean, Pole, Dry Tarahumara Black and Blue
   Bean, Pole, Dry Tarahumara Caballito and Burro
   Bean, Pole, Dry Tarahumara Café
   Bean, Pole, Dry Tarahumara Carpinteros
   Bean, Pole, Dry Tarahumara Chokame
   Bean, Pole, Dry Tarahumara Choliwame
   Corn, Dent Aztec Red
   Corn, Dent Cherokee (Trail of Tears)
   Corn, Dent Cherokee Blue and White
   Corn, Dent Cherokee Long Ear
   Corn, Dent Cherokee White
   Corn, Dent Cherokee White Eagle
   Corn, Dent Cheyenne Red
   Corn, Dent Hopi Tall Blue
   Corn, Dent Mesquakie
   Corn, Dent Oaxacan Green
   Corn, Dent Pawnee Blue
   Corn, Dent Tohono O’odham June
   Corn, Flint Apache Yellow Flint
   Corn, Flint Bear Island Chippewa
   Corn, Flint Cheyenne Agency Striped
   Corn, Flint Gaspe
   Corn, Flint Ha-Go-Wa (Seneca Flint)
   Corn, Flint King Philip, Improved
   Corn, Flint Lenni Lenape
   Corn, Flint Mandan Black Flint
   Corn, Flint Mandan Clay Red
   Corn, Flint Osage Red
   Corn, Flint Seneca Blue Bear Dancer
   Corn, Flint Seneca Indian Corn
   Corn, Flint Seneca Red Stalker
   Corn, Flint Tarahumara Apachito
   Corn, Flint Tarahumara Golden Cristalino
   Corn, Flint Tarahumara Maiz Azul
   Corn, Flint Tarahumara Serape
   Corn, Flint Tarahumara Calico
   Corn, Flour Acoma Blue Flour
   Corn, Flour Anasazi
   Corn, Flour Apache
   Corn, Flour Arikara White
   Corn, Flour Assinioboine
   Corn, Flour Cherokee Village
   Corn, Flour Cherokee White
   Corn, Flour Cheyenne Pencil
   Corn, Flour Cherokee Indian Flour
   Corn, Flour Cherokee White Flour
   Corn, Flour Cochiti Blue
   Corn, Flour Concho White
   Corn, Flour Delaware Lenni Lenape
   Corn, Flour Delaware White Flour
   Corn, Flour Hopi
   Corn, Flour Hopi Blue
   Corn, Flour Hopi Greasy Hair
   Corn, Flour Hopi Kokoma
   Corn, Flour Hopi Orange-Red
   Corn, Flour Hopi Pink
   Corn, Flour Hopi Purple
   Corn, Flour Hopi Purpleback Kokoma
   Corn, Flour Hopi Red
   Corn, Flour Hopi Red White and Blue
   Corn, Flour Hopi Speckled
   Corn, Flour Hopi Turquoise
   Corn, Flour Hopi White
   Corn, Flour Hopi Yellow
   Corn, Flour Iroquois Calico
   Corn, Flour Iroquois White Giant
   Corn, Flour Mandan Bride
   Corn, Flour Mandan Red Clay
   Corn, Flour Mandan Society Corn
   Corn, Flour Mojave
   Corn, Flour Navajo (Dine) Blue Flour
   Corn, Flour Navajo (Dine) Robin’s Egg Flour
   Corn, Flour Navajo (Dine) White Flour
   Corn, Flour Osage Brown
   Corn, Flour Pawnee
   Corn, Flour Pima White
   Corn, Flour Ponca Blue
   Corn, Flour Quapaw
   Corn, Flour Seneca Blue Bear Dance
   Corn, Flour Seneca Hominy
   Corn, Flour Six Nations
   Corn, Flour Taos Blue
   Corn, Flour Tohono O’odham 60 day
   Corn, Flour Tohono O’odham June
   Corn, Pop Chapalote
   Corn, Pop Chapalote Mayo Yellow
   Corn, Pop Cherokee
   Corn, Pop Cherokee Long Ear
   Corn, Pop Cochiti Pueblo
   Corn, Pop Onaveno
   Corn, Sweet Anasazi
   Corn, Sweet Hopi
   Corn, Sweet Hopi Massiqa
   Corn, Sweet Mandan Red
   Corn, Sweet Mohawk Black Puckers
   Corn, Sweet Orchard Baby
   Corn, Sweet Zuni/Anasazi
   Corn, Other Teosinte (Annual)
   Lima Cliff Dweller
   Lima Hopi
   Lima Hopi Orange
   Lima Hopi Red
   Lima Hopi Tan
   Lima Hopi Yellow
   Lima Worchester Indian Red Pole
   Potato Makah Ozette
   Squash, Maxima American Indian
   Squash, Maxima Arikara
   Squash, Maxima Arikara Acorn
   Squash, Maxima Arikara Ebony Acer
   Squash, Maxima Arikara Washington
   Squash, Maxima Boston Marrow
   Squash, Maxima Hidatsa
   Squash, Maxima Hopi Orange
   Squash, Maxima Hopi Pale Grey
   Squash, Maxima Hopi White
   Squash, Maxima Hopi White Pumpkin
   Squash, Maxima Lakota
   Squash, Maxima Mandan
   Squash, Maxima Nanicoke
   Squash, Maxima Navajo Hubbard
   Squash, Maxima Taos Pueblo
   Squash, Mixta Gila Cushaw
   Squash, Mixta Gila Cliff Dweller Cushaw
   Squash, Mixta Hopi
   Squash, Mixta Hopi Black Green
   Squash, Mixta Hopi Taos
   Squash, Mixta Hopi Vatagna Cushaw
   Squash, Mixta Navajo Cushaw
   Squash, Argyrosperma Wichita
   Squash, Moschata Algonquin Pumpkin
   Squash, Moschata Choctaw Sweet Potato
   Squash, Moschata Creek Candy Roaster
   Squash, Moschata Seminole
   Squash, Moschata Yoeme Segualca
   Squash, Pepo Acoma Pumpkin
   Squash, Pepo Cheyenne Acorn
   Squash, Pepo Connecticuit Field
   Squash, Pepo Hopi Pumpkin
   Squash, Pepo Lakota
   Squash, Pepo Mandan
   Squash, Pepo Mandan Banquet
   Squash, Pepo Mandan Strain no. 1
   Squash, Pepo Mandan Yellow
   Squash, Pepo Mt. Pima Vavuli
   Squash, Pepo Omaha
   Squash, Pepo Shawnee Sunset
   Squash, Pepo Tarahumara Indian
   Squash, Pepo Tarahumara Pumpkin
   Squash, Pepo Worchester Indian Pumpkin
   Squash, Gourd Okeechobee Gourd
   Sunflower Apache Brown
   Sunflower Arikara
   Sunflower California Valley Yokut Indian
   Sunflower Havasupai Mix
   Sunflower Havasupai Small
   Sunflower Havasupai Striped
   Sunflower Hidatsa no. 1
   Sunflower Hopi Black Seed
   Sunflower Hopi Black Dye
   Sunflower Hopi Branched
   Sunflower Hopi Mix
   Sunflower Puebloan (Hopi)
   Sunflower Seneca
   Sunflower Sumpweed
   Sunflower Tarahumara White
   Tepary Cocopah Brown
   Tepary Cocopah White
   Tepary Hopi White
   Tepary Mitla Black
   Tepary O’odham Brown
   Tepary Paiute Mixed
   Tepary Paiute Yellow
   Tepary Pima Beige and Brown
   Tepary Tohono O’odham Red-Brown
   Tepary Tohono O’odham White
   Tepary Yaqui
   Tepary Yoeme (Yaqui) Beige-Brown
   Tepary Yoeme Brown
   Tobacco Cherokee Ceremonial
   Tobacco Delaware Sacred
   Tobacco Hopi
   Tobacco Hopi Smoking
   Tobacco Indian
   Tobacco Mandan
   Tobacco Midewiwan Sacred
   Tobacco Mohawk
   Tobacco Santa Domingo Ceremonial
   Tobacco Zapotec Ceremonial
   Tomatillo Tarahumara White
   Tomatillo Wild Tomatillo of the Continental Divide
   Tomatillo Zuni
   Watermelon Arikara
   Watermelon Navajo Red-Meated
   Watermelon Navajo Yellow-Meated
   Wheat Pima Club

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2. 

   Stephen Lasko

   February 2, 2016 • 5:45 pm

   Hi Elizabeth,
   Sorry, I got confused by that caption on the banner. I thought it was Rowen’s page. Well, I guess I have the same question for you as to what varieties you may have encountered that I do not have listed here. The videos are great!st
   Thanks,
   Stephen

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