Native American farmers in the southwestern United States have long deployed weather-adaptive techniques to grow crops such as corn and beans in high-desert environments only occasionally visited by ...

HAMBURG, Pa. - The Dreibelbis farm in Virginville hosted it's Native American Spring Celebration to celebrate local Native American culture and heritage. The farm is one of the largest American Indian ...

A new grant from the Native American Agriculture Fund will allow the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture to develop a new Purple Plow Challenge focused on Native American student interests ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has named the members of a council created in a 2010 settlement to ensure Native American farmers and ranchers have access to Department of ...

In the dense forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, archaeologists have made an astounding discovery: ancient farmlands that challenge everything we thought we knew about Native American agriculture.

Raised agricultural beds cover an estimated 70% of the lidar survey area at Sixty Islands archaeological site along the Menominee River. With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, ...

Mike Hackman of Columbus took this picture of the Native American farming community between 1100-1200 A.D. while hiking in the Wupatki National Monument in northern Arizona in May. Mike Hackman of ...

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