Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Pima Indians and the San Carlos Irrigation Project
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Pima Indians and the San Carlos Irrigation Project
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Pima Indians and the San Carlos Irrigation Project
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Damming the Gila
Author: David H. DeJongPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816553270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Unraveling a complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering, Damming the Gila continues the story of the Gila River Indian Community’s struggle for the restoration of its water rights. 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, it details the history and development of the project, including the Gila Decree and the Winters Doctrine. 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. Damming the Gila is the third in a trio of important documentary works, beginning with DeJong’s Stealing the Gila and followed by Diverting the Gila. It continues the story of the Gila River Indian Community’s fight to regain access to their water.
San Carlos Irrigation Project, Arizona
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Stealing the Gila
Author: David H. DeJongPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816536503
Category : Social Science
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.
Coolidge Dam, Pinal County, Arizona
Author: David M. IntrocasoPublisher:
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Category : Coolidge Dam (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2320
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2386
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2316
Book Description