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Jacob Butler, Garden Manager at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Garden, he shares the cultures of two People–the Akimel O’odham (River People, Pima) and the Piipaash (People Who Live Toward the Water, Maricopa). Ancestors of the Piipaash originally lived along the lower Colorado River on the California/Arizona border. Still, in the 1600s, hostilities with other tribes forced them to relocate north to the Gila River. A group splintered off and traveled east to the Salt River, where they allied with the Akimel O’odham living there. The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian. Community sovereignty was recognized, and their reservation was federally created in 1879 and bordered the cities of Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa and Fountain Hills. The Tribe maintains 19,000 acres of their 52,000 acres as a nature preserve, protecting the landscape and wildlife of the upper Sonoran Desert.

Jacob Butler is the Garden Manager at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Garden. Jacob talks about Native agriculture.