There is a legend that the seed of it came originally from the island of Nantucket; but it has short "nubbin" ears, and even the island Indians must have found it a poor crop for any thing but popping.
"Winter Fun"
William O. Stoddard
While the family was in Oklahoma, Will-who was about 20-taught school two terms at nubbin Ridge, somewhere near Duncan.
"The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography"
Johnson, Clarence Edgar
This it was that had been crying, and this is why all Indian women have since garnered their corn crop very carefully, so that the succulent food product should not even to the last small nubbin be neglected or wasted, and thus displease the Great Mystery.
"Myths and Legends of the Sioux"
Marie L. McLaughlin