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sun ower, native to this region, to create the black-seeded sun ower variety of Helianthus annuus. The Havsubaja are gifted the black-seeded and continue to nurture and develop it for the 900 years leading up to the modern present. The Havsubaja are thrown off their land, beginning in the 1800’s, though most resist in the nooks and crannies afforded by the rough terrain of the Grand Canyon. The People learn from the Canyon, and they hang on.
Despite continuous injustice and attempts to annihilate them, the People are reunited with their home in 1976. They renew and begin replanting the blackseeded sun ower and their other crops.
Mark Lewis
Chmachyakyakya kurikuri: 8000-year Crops –
Ancient-Future Foods Remembered 480.261.3730, manujib@yahoo.com, Scottsdale and Phoenix
Foraging 2000 edibles and 500 medicinals throughout AZ and the Sonoran/Bajan SW. Over 150 years experience in SW/Baja/AZ foraging through my grandfather and his grandfather. Forty ve years direct foraging experience; economic botany background. University teaching since 1983. English, Paipai, Spanish. Limited experience Japanese sansai toriniiku; Japanese uency rating Mombusho chuukyuu.
Classes and Walk and Talks, cultural advice, horticultural advice, and ingredient advice based on plant families/chemical pro les.
Native Seed/Search scientists Nabhan and Reichhardt visit in 1978 and are gifted some of the black- seeded sun ower seeds by Marshall and other farmers, seeds which are then deposited in Tucson.
In 1990, 1992, and 1993, oods scour Havasu lands. Thanks to the People, some of the black-seeded are saved.
In 1994, multiple rust strains attack and devastate sun owers worldwide. USDA scientist Gulya discovers a strain (Havasupai black-seeded) that is resistant to all of the strains.
Gulya discovers the resistant seed stock in Tucson. He thus learns of the Havasupai connection. With the help of NS/S and the Havasupai, new varieties of sun ower are bred incorporating
In the Valley, since 2012 presenting and offering samples weekly each Saturday morning
at “Chmachyakyakya:
Thirty 8000-year Crops” booth at the Old Town Scottsdale Farmers’ Market -- 130 different plants and 30 mushrooms/ morels. Other Markets by request. Edible Desert Dinners. Restaurant ingredient and pairing advising.
the Havasupai black-seeded’s genes. All subsequent successful surviving Helianthus annuus sun owers worldwide become part Havasupai, a gift from the People.
So what are the take away lessons here? Agricultural diversity will save us. But agricultural diversity turns out to be human diversity. All roads are good, and we are going to need all the different peoples of the earth if any of us are going to move forward. Together we will rise up. What you save now later will save you. The sun ower is a symbol of this.
Nnyamanujib!
Together we will rise up!
Kvtarvpnyvtark.
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