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Stealing the Gila
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Pages: 268
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Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-15 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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By 1850 the Pima Indians of central Arizona had developed a strong and sustainable agricultural economy based on irrigation. As David H. DeJong demonstrates, th
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Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Gregory McNamee
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-15 - Publisher: UNM Press

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For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico
Diverting the Gila
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: David H. DeJong
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-19 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans assumed the land and water resources of the West were endless. Water was as vital to newcomers t
Peoples of the Middle Gila
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: John P. Wilson
Categories: Maricopa Indians
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

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This latest volume in the Gila River Indian Community Anthropological Research Papers series by John P. Wilson provides a narrative history of the Akimel O'Odha
Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-03 - Publisher: Turtleback Books

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A New York City boy's preconceived ideas of life in the West make him very apprehensive about the family's move there