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Regan Weitzelusi was 8 years old when her dad told her a story.
How centuries ago, at the Four Corners where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado meet, there were thousands and thousands of peach trees.
They were planted like that among the tribal nations in the Southwest.
Vast orchards grew along the Rio Grande.
All the way out into Hopi and a lot of the Grand Canyon communities.
Growing up as a member of the Navajo Nation, Reagan had never seen a peach tree.
But she learned the stories, how the peaches were a vital food source, eaten fresh or boiled or dried in the sun and stored.
How many tribal communities in the Southwest begin their spring dances when the peaches start blooming?
And when the peaches are done blooming, then they stop their dances.
Even for Navajo, there's sacred prayers given to the peaches during certain times of the year.
The peaches were so important that they became part of a scorched earth policy to drive the people out.
It happened in 1863 when the US government ordered the Navajo, also known as the Dene, to leave their land to move to an internment camp called Bosque Redondo.