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Puget Salish Tribe

NRCS Staff Brings Mississippi Needles to Oregon Native Americans

January 23, 2013 Justin Fritscher, NRCS Mississippi

Members of the Puget Salish Tribe in the Northwest are now using Southeastern longleaf pine needles from Mississippi to build baskets, all because of a connection made between two employees of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)—from the Gulf Coast to the West Coast.

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