Excerpt from Corn Among the Indians of the Upper Missouri

As to whether the corn of the tribes of the lower Missouri Valley was extensively grown by the pioneer white settlers, the records are Silent, but it seems probable that these native varieties were used, to some extent, during the first period of settlement. Sturtevant in his list of varieties grown by the whites (1884) mentions both an Omaha blue corn and a Mandan squaw corn, the former variety being grown as far east as Il linois, while an old settler in Kansas speaks of a very early variety, called yellow maiden corn, seemingly a native corn, which he implies was popular among the pioneer settlers in the lower valley of Kansas River. We hear occasionally of blue corn, white ¿our corn, and mixed corn of numerous types, all usually lumped together as squaw corn, and always as pioneer varieties.

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