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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bess, Jennifer (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2021]
Subjects:	Pima Indians > Agriculture > Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.) Pima Indians > Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.) > Economic conditions. Gila River Indian Reservation (Ariz.) > Agriculture. Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.) > History.

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