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WASHINGTON -- Native American farmers have until December 24 to file for claims and debt relief totaling $760 million under the settlement of the Keepseagle farmer discrimination case against the ...
The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest preserved archaeological field system in the eastern United States ...
The Obama administration announced a $760 million settlement Tuesday to resolve allegations by thousands of Native American farmers and ranchers that for decades the Agriculture Department ...
The 2007 Census has given us the first good data on Native American farmers. ... Most Native farmers and ranchers live in New Mexico, Arizona, Montana and Oklahoma and most raise livestock.
Farmers Are Keepers of Native American Past Agriculture-archaeological relationships, once tainted by mutual suspicion, are protecting the past and allowing farmland to serve as a vast repository ...
The largest U.S. philanthropy serving Native American farmers and ranchers has been established to distribute $266 million from a landmark 2010 civil rights settlement in which the U.S. government ...
PHOENIX – Thirty miles south of Phoenix, green fields of alfalfa and pima cotton stretch toward a triple-digit sun. Hundreds of yellow butterflies dance above the purple flowers that dapple the ...
In the inaugural State of Native Agriculture Address, Native American ag leaders talked about gains made in improving tribal agriculture and its relationship to USDA, as well as work yet to be done.
This year, Native American tribes and farmers are competing for this shrinking resource. It's an indicator of future water wars in the West. Jefferson Public Radio's Erik Neumann explains.
Native American Farmers are Growing a Sustainable Market. More than half of Arizona's farms are run by Native Americans, and they’re now poised to scale up centuries-old sustainable practices to tap ...
An NBC News investigation finds an unlikely alliance forming in the Dakotas between Native American Organizers and white farmers who are teaming up in an effort to block a proposed carbon pipeline.