Location of the Pima and Tohono O’odham Reservations

• Canals sustained farming conditions in a dry desert environment

• They helped cultivate corn, beans, squash, wheat, and melon

• Farming activities are inhibited when the dams were built

• Dams in Arizona

• Community actions help children learn to take care of their health.

• Programs are installed to reconnect Pimas and Tohono O’odhams, young and old, to their lost heritage.

• Bad Sugar

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