Maps
Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Spelling and Pronunciation of Quechan Words
Introduction: The Land of the Quechans
Chapter 1. Pre-Colonial Setting: 1540-1852
Traditional Quechan Lifeways
Settlement Patterns
Kinship Groups
Material Culture
Leadership
Warfare
Mourning
Chapter 2. From Garrison to Reservation: 1852-1900
Approximate Locations of Quechan Settlements During Non-Agricultural Months, 1880-1900
Heintzelman's Hegemony
The Death of Pasqual
The 1893 Agreement
Nineteenth-Century Development in Retrospect
Chapter 3. Amalgamation, Allotment, Paternalism: 1900-1934
Relative Amounts and Locations of Loss to Quechan Land Holdings, 1884-1974
A Change in Fort Yuma School Administration
The Embattled Agents
The Return of Patrick Miguel
The Process of Amalgamation
Allotment
Sociocultural Impositions
Land and Economics Once More
Politics and Economic Development: 1900-1934
Chapter 4. Policy Pendulum-A New Deal and Termination Threats: 1934-1961
The New Deal and Educational Reform
Introducing the Indian Reorganization Act
The Embattled Council
Material Impact of the Indian New Deal
Material Impacts of the Renewed Drive for Assimilation
Social Interaction in the Community
The Road Blockade of 1960
Contradictions of Policy and Practice in Development: 1934-1961
Chapter 5. Politics and Problems of Self-Help: 1961-1974
The New Frontier Reaches Fort Yuma
The Council's Role
The Patronage Issue
The Programs and the Community: Means and Ends
Community Action Program and Neighborhood Youth Corps
The Claims Program
Conditions of Development in 1969
Developments in 1974
Farming as an Adaptive Strategy
The Land Issue-Still
Adaptive Strategy for Development: 1961-1974
Chapter 6. The Quechan Community as a Product of Internal Colonialism
Events of 1961-1974 from an Internal-Colonial Perspective
Notes to the Chapters
References
Acknowledgments
Index