Many tribal members began to revive the observance of traditional Green Corn Dance ceremonies, and some moved away from Christianity observance.
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More plots were planted with golden sunflowers, destined for the oil mill, and tall green corn, destined to fatten ducks and geese.
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That rescue worsened floods in the central Everglades, including tribal land, killing trees and ruining crops for the sacred Green Corn Dance.
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Daybreak on Sunday marks the completion of the Green Corn ceremony and the beginning of the new year for the ground members.
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There are pale green corn plants poking through the brown soil, lakes glimpsed through trees, cholla cactus among the tumbled red rocks.
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During Green Corn, as well as the other ceremonies, the participating members commit to dancing, fasting, medicine taking, work and other ritual activities.
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According to Native American custom, Coombs says, there have always been thanksgivings for crops, and celebrations for green corn, the harvest and planting.
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Despite the traditional account, some anthropologists noted that unlike other tribes, the Choctaw do not appear to have practiced the Green Corn ceremony.
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The farm raised its own stock, feeding the cattle eight pounds of dry feed twice a day with pasture and green corn in summer.
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The mournful voice of a farm woman singing a folk song drifts over green corn fields as sandy yellow soil blows across lonely hills.
