Cherokee Nation to preserve culturally important seeds in Arctic vault
by Nina Lakhani from Environment | The Guardian on (#4Z28T)
Varieties of corn, beans and squash seen as central to Cherokee identity will be deposited in Norway's Svalbard seed bank
The Cherokee Nation will bank corn, bean and squash seeds in the Arctic "doomsday vault", becoming the first US-based tribe to safeguard culturally emblematic crops for future generations.
The Svalbard seed vault, the world's most sheltered storage facility, currently holds 992,039 crop seeds from across the world.
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