What Native American tribe first cultivated maize (corn)?

Question

What Native American tribe first cultivated maize (corn)?

Answer 1

The specific tribe that first cultivated corn is unknown.   Perhaps the Oaxacans, judging from the evidence.

The origins of maize begin on the Pacific slope of the modern Mexican states of Oaxaca, Tehuacán, and the Valley of Mexico. The earliest primitive corncobs discovered in Mesoamerica were obtained from specimens recovered within a cave near Oaxaca.

New World dispersals:  Walton C. Galinat has traced the diffusion of maize into North America to a Northern Flint Pathway established by 700 C.E. in the Rio Grande valley. From there maize spread northward along both the eastern and western flanks of the Rocky Mountains, and eastward along major river courses—including those of the Arkansas, Mississippi, Platte, and Ohio Rivers—permitting its continued cultivation and dispersal eastward. By 1200 C.E., maize cultivation was established in upstate New York and New England. While the eight-rowed variety of maize was cultivated in the southeastern United States in pre-Columbian times, the Southern Dent Pathway accounts for the distributions of other varieties of maize after 1500 C.E., subsequent to Spanish contact in those regions. Ultimately, the hybrid vigor identified with the larger and more robust forms of maize can be traced back to the merging of the Northern Flint varieties with the Southern Dent varieties by U.S. farmers of the Midwest in the mid-nineteenth century. According to Galinat, this hybrid fusion can be characterized as having resulted in an "inadvertent evolutionary explosion" that ultimately transformed maize into a highly productive and important foodstuff.

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Answer 2

I don't know but it was originated in southern Mexico...

Answer 3

The Red Indians

Answer 4

who first cultivated corn is still a hotly debated topic

Answer 5

it is the sioux indians of America  that were first to cultivate corn