Returning to their roots, health
(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - The Oneida, like other tribes in Wisconsin, are returning to indigenous foods such as high-protein white corn and bison to aid their own survival, as diabetes and heart disease associated with fast-food diets plague tribal members.
The heirloom corn can be traced back to the upstate New York homeland of the Oneida Nation before the colonists arrived. It is grown today on reservation land in three places in North America: upstate New York, Canada (Thames, Ontario), and Oneida near Green Bay, according to tribal officials. More

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