Growth industry: Native American farms reclaim heritage, expand operations

Growth industry: Native American farms reclaim heritage, expand operations (access required)

By Debra Utacia Krol, Arizona Capitol Times correspondent

Published: August 7, 2009 at 8:43 am

Agriculture was big business long before the first Spanish conquistador, Franciscan friar or American wagon train reached the Valley of the Sun. Centuries of canal-building, first by the Huhugam, followed by their descendents the Akimel O'odham people (also known as Pimas) and their Pee-Posh, or Maricopa, neighbors, brought life-giving water from the Gila, Salt and other local rivers to fertile fields of corn, beans, squash, tobacco, lima beans and cotton.

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