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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeJong, David H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.