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Neither wolf nor dog : American Indians, environment, and agrarian change
During the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans through a process of removal, reservation, and directed culture change. Policies for directed subsistence change and incorporation had far-reaching social and environmental consequences for native peoples and native lands. This study explores the experiences of three groups-Northern Utes, Hupas, and Tohono O'odhams-with settled reservation and allotted agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each group inhabited a different environment, and their cultural traditions reflected distinct subsistence adaptations to life in the western United States. Each experienced the full weight of federal agrarian policy yet responded differently, in culturally consistent ways, to subsistence change and the resulting social and environmental consequences. Attempts to establish successful agricultural economies ultimately failed as each group reproduced their own cultural values in a diminished and rapidly changing environment. In the end, such policies and agrarian experiences left Indian farmers marginally incorporated and economically dependent.
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- ISBN: 0195062973 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780195062977 (acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: x, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-230) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1. Agriculture, Civilization, and American Indian Policy -- 2. Nuciu, the Northern Ute People -- 3. Agriculture and the Northern Utes -- 4. Hupa, the People of Natinook -- 5. Farming and the Changing Harvest Economy in Hoopa Valley -- 6. Tohono O'odham, the Desert People -- 7. The Tohono O'odham and Agricultural Change.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | E 98 .C89 W5 L49 1994 | 230201 | Stacks | Available | - |
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