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Homegrown: Documentary Shorts Collection
Pawnee Seed Warriors Revive Ancient Ties to Ancestors
Season 1
Episode 2
In Seed Warriors, filmmaker Rebekka Schlichting follows a group of seed keepers as they work to regain food sovereignty in their ancestral homelands of Nebraska. By reclaiming their sacred corn seeds, they seek to return to the healthy, traditional lifeways of the Pawnee people.
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