A01=David Rich Lewis
Author_David Rich Lewis
Category=JBSL11
Category=NHK
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Product details
- ISBN 9780195117943
- Weight: 404g
- Dimensions: 152 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1998
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
