"A number of American Indian tribes produce food products, usually items like wild rice, pemmican and fry-bread mixes. The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, of the Capay Valley in Northern California, has gone farther. Last year, the tribe — which has a casino and grows various crops, like wine grapes — harvested and pressed enough arbequina olives to bottle and sell the oil, which the state has certified as extra virgin."
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Olive Oil From a California Tribe
(The New York Times 6/27)
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