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Traditional Navajo farming
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times), June, 2004 by Norrell, Brenda
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> Norrell, Brenda Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 06-30-2004 Songs of corn and life ROCK POINT, Ariz. - Twenty-five years ago, a group of Navajo eighth graders at Rock Point Community School embarked on a special project and interviewed their Dine elders about methods of traditional farming. Now, "Navajo Farming", published in 1979, has become a classic, rare resource on planting by the stars, the use of the traditional planting stick and dry farming. Beginning with the words sang while planting in Canyon de Chelly, there is the song of "In the Field of the ...
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