The Three Sisters Legend, as presented at the Three Sisters exhibit at the Sweatwater Harvest Festival, held this past weekend at Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons and the Wye Marsh.

Corn, beans, and squash were always planted together. The Indigenous people believed that their spirits were loving sisters who liked to stay beside one another. When the seeds were planted, the Indigenous people prayed to the Thunder Spirit not to burn the earth and to give the sisters all the water they needed.

Late in the summer, when the crops were ripe, the people celebrated because the sisters had grown up. At the next moon, they danced in honour of the harvest. The life cycle was complete. On that day, the women sang. ‘The three sisters are happy because they are home again from their summer in the fields.