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Diverting the Gila : The Pima Indians and the Florence-Casa Grande Project, 1916-1928 by David H. DeJong (2021, Hardcover)
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Diverting the Gila : The Pima Indians and the Florence-Casa Grande Project, 1, Hardcover by Dejong, David H., ISBN 0816541744, ISBN-13 9780816541744, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Diverting the Gila explores 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."--
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Arizona Press
ISBN-100816541744
ISBN-139780816541744
eBay Product ID (ePID)20050077640
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDiverting the Gila : the Pima Indians and the Florence-Casa Grande Project, 1916-1928
SubjectUnited States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, United States / General
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid H. Dejong
Subject AreaNature, Social Science, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight22.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-048353
Reviews"The author provides a detailed study of good intentions, betrayal, and compromise to resolve the use of the Gila River by the Pima and white farmers in central Arizona. It also is the story of greed with an underlying foundation of racism on the part of white landowners against the Pima. In Arizona and the West, water is power--economic, social, and political. Its use is not neutral, and the Pima did not have it."--R. Douglas Hurt, author of The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal979.1004/9745529
SynopsisIn 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., Diverting the Gila explores 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.
LC Classification NumberE99.P6D445 2021
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