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

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

Paperback

Native American HistoryRegional: West

ISBN10: 1607810956
ISBN13: 9781607810957
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: Mar 31 2011
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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