Sehsapsing or Oklahoma Delaware Blue is a blue/black flour corn grown by the Lenape people, who took the seed eventually to Indian Territory in Oklahoma during the Trail of Tears when they were forced out of their homeland in what is now New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, southern New York, and northern Delaware. I live and farm on Lenape soil, and to grow this maize in its original homeland is part of the rematriation of the seed. Next step: returning the seeds to Lenape growers. William Woys Weaver received seeds of this variety in the 1970s from both Gladys Tantaquidgeon (Mohegan medicine woman and ethnographer) and Walton Galinat (a Connecticut Yankee who specialized in native corn). #lenapefoods #sehsapsing #sehsapsingcorn #heirloomcorn #flourcorn #seedkeeping #seedsaving (at Delaware County, Pennsylvania)
