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

Author/creator Bess, Jennifer
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLouisville : University Press of Colorado, [2021]
Descriptionxvi, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021001175
ISBN9781646420827 (hardcover)
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