The foundations of Glen Canyon Dam : infrastructures of dispossession on the Colorado Plateau /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bsumek, Erika Marie (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Settler colonialism > Colorado Plateau > History. Indians of North America > Colorado Plateau > Social conditions > History. Water resources development > Social aspects > Colorado Plateau > History. Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.) > Social aspects > History. Indians of North America > Social conditions. Settler colonialism. Social aspects. Water resources development > Social aspects. Arizona > Glen Canyon Dam. United States > Colorado Plateau. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction. The Many Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam
1. Religious Expansion: Latter-day Settlers, Dispossession, and Indentured Servitude, 1840–1880
2. Instruments of Dispossession: The Influence of Science and Scholarship, 1869–1920
3. Structures of Erasure: Engineering, Education, and Ecology, 1910–1960
4. Political Maneuvering: Reclamation and Termination in Diné Bikéyah, 1947–1980
5. Legal Paradigms and Dispossession: Navajos, Environmentalists, and the Law, 1969–1980
Epilogue. Dispossession and Possession: The Continued Fight over Sacred Land and Water on the Colorado Plateau