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Forced to Abandon Our Fields: The 1914 Clay Southworth Gila River Pima Interviews de David H. DeJong

Forced to Abandon Our Fields: The 1914 Clay Southworth Gila River Pima Interviews

Autor David H. DeJong
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2011 – vârsta până la 80 ani
During the nineteenth century, upstream diversions from the Gila River decreased the arable land on the Gila River Indian Reservation to only a few thousand acres. As a result the Pima Indians, primarily an agricultural people, fell into poverty. Many Pima farmers and leaders lamented this suffering and in 1914 the United States Indian Irrigation Service assigned a 33-year-old engineer named Clay “Charles” Southworth to oversee the Gila River adjudication. As part of that process, Southworth interviewed 34 Pima elders, thus putting a face on the depth of hardships facing many Indians in the late nineteenth century.
Southworth’s interviews fell into obscurity until recently, when they were rediscovered by David DeJong. The interviews cover decades of Pima history and reveal the nexus between upstream diversions and Pima economy, agriculture, water use, and water rights. In Forced to Abandon Our Fields, DeJong provides the historical context for these interviews; transcripts of the interviews provide first-hand descriptions of both the once-successful Pima agricultural economy and its decline by the early twentieth century. These interviews suggest that it was not the triumph of Western civilization that displaced the Pima agricultural economy but the application of a philosophy of economic liberalism that prevented the Pima from building on their previous successes.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781607810957
ISBN-10: 1607810956
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 8 photos and 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Utah Press
Colecția University of Utah Press

Recenzii

“DeJong's presentation of the oral interview transcripts is excellent. These interviews are a rich source of cultural and historical information about the Pimas.”—David Rich Lewis, Utah State University
 

"The interviews and other original sources, including photographs and translations of two calendar sticks as well as DeJong's overview of federal policies regarding Pima water, provide a historical context that continues to have vital relevance into the twenty-first century. DeJong presents a valuable contribution to the scholarship on American Indian history and encourages future research on natural resources and Indian communities."—Western Historical Quarterly

Cuprins

Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Introduction. “Indians Starving to Death”
1. “High and Dry”
2. “Forced to Abandon Our Fields”
3. The Southworth Interviews
4. Friends of the Pima Speak Out
5. Two Pima Calendar Sticks
6. Epilogue: Pima Water Rights, 1914-2007
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Descriere

The interviews cover decades of Pima history and reveal the nexus between upstream diversions and Pima economy, agriculture, water use, and water rights. In Forced to Abandon Our Fields, DeJong provides the historical context for these interviews; transcripts of the interviews provide first-hand descriptions of both the once-successful Pima agricultural economy and its decline by the early twentieth century.