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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Vlasich, James A. Pueblo Indian agriculture. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)607559063 Online version: Vlasich, James A. Pueblo Indian agriculture. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)609862338 |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James A Vlasich |
ISBN: | 0826335047 9780826335043 |
OCLC Number: | 57366468 |
Description: | xix, 363 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- New Spain comes to New Mexico (1540-1700) -- Spanish law in New Mexico (1700-1765) -- Age of transition (1760-1850) -- Pueblo agriculture in the territory of New Mexico (1850-1890) -- A change in status (1890-1920) -- Prelude to modernization (1920-1938) -- Transitions in Pueblo agriculture (1938-1948) -- Postwar Pueblos (1948-1962) -- Pueblo agriculture and economic development (1962-1980) -- Modern Pueblo agriculture (1980-present). |
Responsibility: | James A. Vlasich. |
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Abstract:
The practice of irrigational agriculture has always set the Pueblo Indians apart from other native groups on the New Mexican frontier. For centuries, farming has been the foundation of the economy of all nineteen Pueblo Indian groups and their ancestors. In this volume, James Vlasich traces Pueblo agriculture from the Spanish entrada to the twenty-first century.
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