On the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen , part of the Arctic Svalbard archipelago , lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault , more commonly lie with as   " The Doomsday Vault " .

Built in anold abandoned ember mine , the construction is   home to over   400,000 seed samples from around the world . The ideais that the for good frozen soil will keep the ejaculate at -18 ° atomic number 6 ( -0.4 ° F ) , with minuscule picture to O to preclude them from aging . salt away in this way , they will   be keep safe for decades , perhaps even a century , protect Earth ’s crop varieties from rude cataclysm , war , and other evitable disasters , both local and perhaps even far-flung .

It ’s sort of like backing up your computer , but for nutrient . AsCrop Trust , the company behind the vault draw it , " it   is the last back up " .

Now , the Cherokee Nation will become the first   tribe in the United States to put in cum diversity in the vault . The Cherokee Nation Secretary of Natural Resources Office collect nine samples of heirloom crops to send for safekeeping , including   Cherokee white eagle corn , which is used in ethnical natural action and isdescribed by Cherokee Nationas their " most hallowed corn " .

Other seeds sent to the semen camber include Cherokee long greasy beans , Cherokee Trail of Tears beans , Cherokee turkey gizzard black and brown bonce , Cherokee candy roaster Squash , and three other smorgasbord of corn .

“ It is such an honor to have a piece of our culture preserve forever , "   Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr sound out in astatement .   " contemporaries from now , these seeds will still hold our history and there will always be a part of the Cherokee Nation in the world .

" This is history in the making , " he add .

The clan was contacted by the director of science for the Global Crop Diversity Trust after Senior Director of Environmental Resources Pat Gwin was interviewed about the Cherokee Nation ’s own heirloom seed bank programme .

“ He sent me an e-mail and said they would be honored to have the kinship group ’s ejaculate in the seed burial vault , ” Gwin said .   " This is a howling chance and laurels for the tribe . to boot , knowing the Cherokee Nation ’s seeds will be eternally protected and available to us , and us only , is a quite valuable thing indeed . "

The seeds will be posit in the vault on February 25 .