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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Don't know much about the Pima.  I know about the programs for the Hopi, 
Navajo, Sioux, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Running Strong for American Indian 
Youth, Renewal of Life Food Journals and a few other programs.  They all 
center around returning to historical eating instead of commodities foods 
and modern "western diet" fast foods.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>


> Lynda, the Pima (O'odham like the papago) have the higfhest rate of 
> diabetes of any group on earth.  They don't live in Four Corners; they are 
> Sonoran Desert Indians.  They live in Phoenix, too.  They just won some 
> kind of big, big, lawsuit to get river water diverted back to their land 
> so they can eat their natural food like what you were tslking.
>
> It is a very big deal here.
>
> Some big ag and politicians didn't eant thm to have and 'waste' all of 
> that water.  Treaties, it is all about treaties.  They won, the river will 
> be diverted.  There have been a couple of PBS documnetaries about the 
> Pima, their stolen water, and their terrible problem with diabstes.  'not 
> trying to correct you; obviously you lnow more about Indians in general, 
> but Pima and diabetes are well known news in 
> Arizona........................