From building clam gardens along the shore to tilling vegetables in the desert, Native Americans have been working with the ...

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of a centuries-old network of irrigation ditches called acequias, said in a statement. "This is our tradition, this is our culture. We don’t want to be a people that loses its traditions because ...

For New Mexicans, the land and the water hold a special significance. “Acequias are ancient historical water systems that have been here even before the United States was the United States.

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Gravity does the rest. For 400 years farmers in the arid Southwest have relied on such acequias—networks of community-operated ditches—to irrigate their crops. The acequia diverts water from a ...

Democratic members of Congress representing Western states want more federal funding support to combat ongoing drought across ...

AND THE LAND-BASED CHICANO COMMUNITIES HERE IN NEW MEXICO, WE HAD ACEQUIAS, WHICH ARE COMMUNAL MODELS, LAND GRANTS WERE COMMUNAL MODELS. AND THOSE WERE ECONOMIC MODELS NOT JUST SOCIAL MODELS.