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1 online resource (xix, 184 pages) : maps |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index. |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
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 devolved as has often been the case with Federal Indian policy. This intriguing book, original published in 1981, considers the Quechans as a case history of the frequent discrepancy between benevolently phrased national intention and exploitative local action. The story of their changing life is traced through the anti-poverty programs of the 1960s and '70s--showing how the implementation of these programs was affected by features of community life that had evolved over preceding decades--and culminates in the Quechans' forging a self-sustaining though fragile economy despite their status as Federal wards. This book is more than a product of archival research. Author Robert Bee attended Quechan public gatherings, canvassed the community, and conducted intensive interviews over a thirteen-year period to attain an intimate understanding of this people's perseverance in the face of age-old frustration. In presenting their story, Bee focuses on the behavior and actions of individuals thrust into key decision-making roles to provide more than just abstract analysis. What emerges is not only a unique ethnohistorical approach to economic development, but a model history of a modern tribe. |
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Yuma Indians -- History.
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Yuma Indians -- Government relations.
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Indians of North America -- Government relations.
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Yuma -- Histoire.
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Yuma -- Relations avec l'État.
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Peuples autochtones -- Amérique du Nord -- Relations avec l'État.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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Indians of North America -- Government relations
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Yuma Indians
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Yuma Indians -- Government relations
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Social & cultural anthropology |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| In: |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bee, Robert L. Crosscurrents along the Colorado. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1981 (DLC) 81007446 (OCoLC)7554540 |
| ISBN |
9780816541171 |
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0816541175 |
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0816505586 |
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9780816505586 |
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0816507252 (pbk.) |
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9780816507252 (pbk.) |
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AU@ 000066984882 |
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