Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
San Carlos Irrigation Project, Arizona
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Indians of the United States: Appendixes: A. Report on the San Carlos irrigation project and the history of irrigation along the Gila River. B. Gratuities converted into reimbursables by the act of August 1, 1914. C. Compilation of laws relating to Indian irrigation projects
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Damming the Gila
Author: David H. DeJongPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816553262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The third in a series, this volume continues to chronicle the history of water rights and activities on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Centered on the San Carlos Irrigation Project and Coolidge Dam, this book details the history and development of the project, including the Gila Decree. Embedded in the narrative is the underlying tension between tribal growers on the Gila River Indian Reservation and upstream users. Told in seven chapters, the story underscores the idea that the Gila River Indian Community believed the San Carlos Irrigation Project was first and foremost for their benefit and how the project and the Gila Decree fell short of restoring their water and agricultural economy.
Indians of the United States: Appendixes A, B, and C
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data
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Category : Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Indians of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Diverting the Gila
Author: David H. DeJongPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816542899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans assumed the land and water resources of the West were endless. Water was as vital to newcomers to Arizona’s Florence and Casa Grande valleys as it had always been to the Pima Indians, who had been successfully growing crops along the Gila River for generations when the white settlers moved in. Diverting the Gila explores the complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering to divide and divert the scarce waters of the Gila River. Residents of Florence, Casa Grande, and the Pima Reservation fought for vital access to water rights. Into this political foray stepped Arizona’s freshman congressman Carl Hayden, who not only united the farming communities but also used Pima water deprivation to the advantage of Florence-Casa Grande and Upper Gila Valley growers. The result was the federal Florence-Casa Grande Project that, as legislated, was intended to benefit Pima growers on the Gila River Indian Reservation first and foremost. As was often the case in the West, well-heeled, nontribal political interests manipulated the laws at the expense of the Indigenous community. Diverting the Gila 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.
Coolidge Dam, Pinal County, Arizona
Author: David M. IntrocasoPublisher:
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Category : Coolidge Dam (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Indian Water Rights of the Five Central Tribes of Arizona
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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.