Crosscurrents Along the Colorado The Impact of Government Policy on the Quechan Indians

• Autor principal: Bee, Robert L. (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: University of Arizona Press 2020
• Assuntos: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Social & cultural anthropology
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

When in 1893 the Quechan Indians of Fort Yuma, California, gave up tracts of fertile farmland in the Colorado River basin in return for Federal aid, they hardly could have anticipated the ensuing deterioration of their economic, political, and cultural self-determination. Their circumstances devolve...