Stealing the Gila - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stealing the Gila write by David H. DeJong. This book was released on 2009-09-15. Stealing the Gila available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Gila
Gila - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gila write by Gregory McNamee. This book was released on 2012-10-15. Gila available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona. Today, for at least half its length, the Gila is dead, like so many of the West’s great rivers, owing to overgrazing, damming, and other practices. This richly documented cautionary tale narrates the Gila’s natural and human history. Now updated, McNamee’s study traces recent efforts to resuscitate portions of this important riparian corridor.
Diverting the Gila
Diverting the Gila - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diverting the Gila write by David H. DeJong. This book was released on 2021-05-11. Diverting the Gila available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diverting the Gilaexplores 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.
Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport write by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. This book was released on 1990-03. Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York City boy's preconceived ideas of life in the West make him very apprehensive about the family's move there
Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico
Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico write by Richard Stephen Felger. This book was released on 2021. Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico is the definitive guide for field botanists, researchers, students, and avid nature lovers who wish to explore the natural history of native and introduced tree species across the Gila. The book documents over seventy-five tree species in the first wilderness area in the United States--and the largest in New Mexico--known for its wildness, remoteness, and significant recreation opportunities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the authors feature detailed individual species accounts and special ecological and ethnobotanical information, providing full dichotomous keys to the families, genera, and species of all trees in the region. Color photographs of the species provide diagnostic clarity for easy identification, showing the whole tree, trunk, and foliage as well as macro photos of the flowers, fruits, or cones and other significant features. This comprehensive and user-friendly guide will be welcomed by residents and visitors studying and discovering the diverse trees of the Gila Region.
