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Tribal Natural Resources

Tribal Natural Resources

David DeJong, author of "Damming the Gila."
Cindy DeJong; University of Arizona Press
More than a century ago, the Gila River was lush and full of life. And the people who farmed around it, the Akimel O’odham people, were thriving. But settlers moved in, laws changed and they lost the water on the river — and their livelihoods with it.