![]() ![]() ![]() But during that first visit in 2009, the plants were just pinhead-size seeds. They are now six-foot-tall perennials with flowering red plumes and chard-like leaves. Photograph: Picture Partners/Alamy Stock Photo Since the 1970s, amaranth has become a billion-dollar food product. Borders don’t exist Maria Aurelia Xitumu of the Qachuu Aloom community ![]() Today, she coordinates the environmental health and justice program at Tewa Women United, where she maintains a hillside public garden that’s home to the descendants of those first amaranth seeds she was given more than a decade ago.įor the seeds, distance doesn’t exist. Tsosie-Peña had begun studying permaculture and other Indigenous agricultural techniques. In the arid heat, the visitors, mostly Maya Achì women from the forested Guatemalan town of Rabinal, showed Tsosie-Peña how to plant the offering they had brought with them: amaranth seeds.īack then, Tsosie-Peña had just recently come interested in environmental justice amid frustration at the ecological challenges facing her native Santa Clara Pueblo – an Indigenous North American community just outside the New Mexico town of Española, which is downwind from the nuclear facilities that built the atomic bomb. J ust over 10 years ago, a small group of Indigenous Guatemalan farmers visited Beata Tsosie-Peña’s stucco home in northern New Mexico.
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