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Where the red-winged blackbirds sing : the Akimel O'odham and cycles of agricultural transformation in the phoenix basin. / Jennifer Bess.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bess, Jennifer, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Agriculture.
Pima Indians--Agriculture.
Pima Indians.
Gila River Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--Agriculture.
Gila River Indian Reservation (Ariz.).
Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.)--History.
Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.).
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2021]
Summary:
"Examines the ways in which the Akimel O'odham ("River People") and their ancestors, the Huhugam, adapted to economic, political, and environmental constraints imposed by federal Indian policy, the Indian Bureau, and an encroaching settler population in Arizona's Gila River Valley"
Adaptation, innovation and co-creation : world-building in story and history -- Strategic adaptations in the Pimería Alta through the Hispanic and Early American Periods -- The Akimel O'odham and the growth of the American West, c. 1846-1871 -- Where the red-winged blackbirds sing : the contest for inclusion during the years of famine, 1871-1910 -- Pima cotton and the new Egypt : U.S. agricultural development, the agricultural experimental station in Sacaton, and the allotment of the Gila River Indian Reservation, 1907-1920 -- The price of Pima cotton : wage labor and the Akimel O'odham agricultural economy, 1907-1920 -- Agriculture and peoplehood in transition : the Akimel O'odham in the Interwar Period.
Contents:
Adaptation, innovation and co-creation : world-building in story and history
Strategic adaptations in the Pimería Alta through the Hispanic and Early American Periods
The Akimel O'odham and the growth of the American West, c. 1846-1871
Where the red-winged blackbirds sing : the contest for inclusion during the years of famine, 1871-1910
Pima cotton and the new Egypt : U.S. agricultural development, the agricultural experimental station in Sacaton, and the allotment of the Gila River Indian Reservation, 1907-1920
The price of Pima cotton : wage labor and the Akimel O'odham agricultural economy, 1907-1920
Agriculture and peoplehood in transition : the Akimel O'odham in the Interwar Period.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781646421053
1646421051
OCLC:
1236896990

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