Stealing the Gila : the Pima agricultural economy and water deprivation, 1848-1921 /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: DeJong, David H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Pima Indians > Agriculture > History > 19th century.
Pima Indians > Agriculture > History > 20th century.
Pima Indians > Economic conditions.
Subsistence economy > Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.) > History.
Water-supply > Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.) > History.
Water rights > Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.) > History.
White people > Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.) > History.
Immigrants > Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.) > History.
Pima > Agriculture > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Pima > Agriculture > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Pima > Conditions économiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Immigrants.
Pima Indians > Agriculture.
Subsistence economy.
Water rights.
Water-supply.
White people.
United States > Gila River Region.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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