Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures in the Interior DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Report in the Matter of the Investigation of the Salt and Gila Rivers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures in the Interior DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Stealing the Gila
Author: David H. DeJongPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816535582
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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 military expeditions and immigrants. Moreover, crops from their fields provided an additional source of food for the Mexican military presidio in Tucson, as well as the U.S. mining districts centered near Prescott. For a brief period of about three decades, the Pima were on an equal economic footing with their non-Indian neighbors. This economic vitality did not last, however. As immigrants settled upstream from the Pima villages, they deprived the Indians of the water they needed to sustain their economy. DeJong traces federal, territorial, and state policies that ignored Pima water rights even though some policies appeared to encourage Indian agriculture. This is a particularly egregious example of a common story in the West: the flagrant local rejection of Supreme Court rulings that protected Indian water rights. With plentiful maps, tables, and illustrations, DeJong demonstrates that maintaining the spreading farms and growing towns of the increasingly white population led Congress and other government agencies to willfully deny Pimas their water rights. Had their rights been protected, DeJong argues, Pimas would have had an economy rivaling the local and national economies of the time. Instead of succeeding, the Pima were reduced to cycles of poverty, their lives destroyed by greed and disrespect for the law, as well as legal decisions made for personal gain.
Diverting the Gila
Author: David H. DeJongPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816541744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Diverting the Gilaexplores the complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering to divide and divert the scarce waters of Arizona's Gila River among residents of Florence, Casa Grande, and the Pima Indians in the early part of the twentieth century. It is the sequel to David H. DeJong's 2009 Stealing the Gila, and it continues to tell the story of the forerunner to the San Carlos Irrigation Project and the Gila River Indian Community's struggle to regain access to their water.
Irrigation
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural EngineeringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Indian Water Rights of the Five Central Tribes of Arizona
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Coolidge Dam, Pinal County, Arizona
Author: David M. IntrocasoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coolidge Dam (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Printing, Showing the Condition of the Public Printing and Binding
Author: United States. Government Printing OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Annual Report of the Public Printer ...
Author: United States. Government Printing OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
San Carlos Irrigation Project, Arizona
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Border Citizens
Author: Eric V. MeeksPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477319670
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In Border Citizens, historian Eric V. Meeks explores how the racial classification and identities of the diverse indigenous, mestizo, and Euro-American residents of Arizona’s borderlands evolved as the region was politically and economically incorporated into the United States. First published in 2007, the book examines the complex relationship between racial subordination and resistance over the course of a century. On the one hand, Meeks links the construction of multiple racial categories to the process of nation-state building and capitalist integration. On the other, he explores how the region’s diverse communities altered the blueprint drawn up by government officials and members of the Anglo majority for their assimilation or exclusion while redefining citizenship and national belonging. The revised edition of this highly praised and influential study features dozens of new images, an introductory essay by historian Patricia Nelson Limerick, and a chapter-length afterword by the author. In his afterword, Meeks details and contextualizes Arizona’s aggressive response to undocumented immigration and ethnic studies in the decade after Border Citizens was first published, demonstrating that the broad-based movement against these measures had ramifications well beyond Arizona. He also revisits the Yaqui and Tohono O’odham nations on both sides of the Sonora-Arizona border, focusing on their efforts to retain, extend, and enrich their connections to one another in the face of increasingly stringent border enforcement.