Stealing the Gila : the Pima agricultural economy and water deprivation, 1848-1921 /
"By 1850 the Pima Indians of central Arizona had developed a strong and sustainable agricultural economy based on irrigation. As David H. DeJong demonstrates, the Pima were an economic force in the mid-nineteenth-century middle Gila River valley, producing food and fiber crops for western milit...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: A west of Jeffersonian farmers?
- The prelude
- The Pima villages and California emigrants
- Establishment of the Pima Reservation
- Civil War, settlers, and Pima agriculture
- A crisis on the river
- Famine and starvation
- Allotment of the Pima Reservation
- The Pima adjudication survey
- The Florence-Casa Grande project
- The Pima economy, water, and federal policy.