Editing Peach (section)

==== Peaches in the Americas ====
Peaches were introduced into the Americas in the 16th century by the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]]. By 1580, peaches were being grown in Latin America and were cultivated by the remnants of the [[Inca Empire]] in Argentina.{{sfn|Capparelli et al. 2005}}

[[File:Drying Peaches at Isleta (NBY 6209).jpg|thumb|Drying peaches at [[Pueblo of Isleta]], New Mexico {{circa|1900}}]]
In the United States the peach was soon adopted as a crop by [[Native Americans of the United States|American Indians]]. In the eastern U.S. the peach also became naturalized and abundant as a feral species.{{sfn|Holland-Lulewicz et al. 2024|pp=1–2}} Peaches were being grown in Virginia as early as 1629. Peaches grown by Indians in Virginia were said to have been "of greater variety and finer sorts" than those of the English colonists. Also in 1629, peaches were listed as a crop in [[New Mexico]].{{sfn|Jett|1977|p=683}} [[William Penn]] noted the existence of wild peaches in [[Pennsylvania]] in 1683.{{sfn|Fair|2002|p=374}} In fact, peaches may have already spread to the [[American Southeast]] by the early to mid 1600s, actively cultivated by indigenous communities such as the [[Muscogee]] before permanent Spanish settlement of the region.{{sfn|Holland-Lulewicz et al. 2024|pp=2–4}}

Peach plantations became an objective of American military campaigns against the Indians. In 1779, the [[Sullivan Expedition]] destroyed the livelihood of many of the [[Iroquois]] people of [[New York (state)|New York]]. Among the crops destroyed were plantations of peach trees.{{sfn|NPS Staff|2020}} In 1864, [[Kit Carson]] led a successful U.S. army expedition to [[Canyon de Chelly National Monument|Canyon de Chelly]] in Arizona to destroy the livelihood of the [[Navajo]]. Carson destroyed thousands of peach trees. A soldier said they were the "best peach trees I have ever seen in the country, every one of them bearing fruit."{{sfn|Sumrak|2017}} The Navajo signed a treaty with the US government in 1868 and were able to return to the canyon. They had saved peach pits and some trees resprouted from stumps and so by the 1870s and 1880s many peach orchards had been restored.{{sfn|Dolan|Wytsalucy|Lyons|2024}}