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We thought the corn plants had souls
- by Laura
“We cared for our corn in those days, as we would care for a child; for we Indian people loved our fields as mothers love their children. We thought the corn plants had souls, as children have souls, and that the growing corn liked to hear us sing, as children like to hear their mothers sing to them.”
Buffalo Bird Woman,
Hidatsa Indian, born 1839 in an earth lodge in present-day North Dakota



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