The millet-of-the-month calendar features barnyard millet(s) in July. As we know, this is a complex of wild, gathered, and cultivated species in the genus Echinochloa. While looking up some material, I came across some older discussions of this group in which there was mention of "ankee" or "ankee millet." In particular, three publications, using similar text and the same drawings, from 1899-1901 (at the time of these publications, what we now know as Echinochloa was classified as Panicum),./1/2/3 These evidently concerns an Echinochloa species, likely a variety of E. crus-galli, that is very tall and grown mostly in wetter or inundated soils. Ankee is, or was until the 1960s, grown by the Mohave / Mojave people, who use(d) the grains for food./4 The name "ankee" is evidently a borrowing from 'anki in their language./5 Further research would fill out some details, including the important matters of how and when ankee came to the area (E. crus-galli is described as a plant from Asia), and its current status. Together with the so-called Sonoran millet (Panicum hirticaule) - a species native to North America - ankee is another example of a millet being grown by Native Americans in wetland areas bordering rivers in what is now the southwest US and northwest Mexico. One should note also that the Mohave people were subjected to confinement to a reservation somewhat away from their native area (altho some apparently remained in their original home) and were subjected to assimilationist policies after 1890./6 . As always, any feedback or further information is appreciated. Don Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance Notes: 1. Williams, Thomas A., "Millets," Farmers' Bulletin No. 101, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1988, pp. 14-15 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Millets_%28IA_CAT8720151... 2. ''Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture'', USGPO, 1899, pp. 277-278 https://archive.org/details/yoa1898/page/277/mode/2up 3. Pammel, L.H., Jules Buel Weems, and Harry Foster Bain, The Grasses of Iowa, Iowa Geological Society, 1901, p. 135 https://archive.org/details/grassesofiowa01pamm/page/135/mode/1up 4. Stewart, Kenneth M. “Mohave Indian Gathering of Wild Plants.” ''Kiva'', vol. 31, no. 1, 1965, pp. 46–53. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30247560 5. Munro, Pamela, Nellie Brown, and Julie G. Crawford, "A Mojave Dictionary," UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics, No. 10, 1992. https://linguistics.ucla.edu/publications/opl_10.pdf 6. "Mohave people," Wikipedia (accessed 13 July 2024) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohave_people