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The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians: The Impact of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880-1930
Richard H. Frost
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Hardcover. How the railroad placed social, cultural, and economic burdens on Pueblo Indians Num Pages: 280 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JFSL9; PDR; TRFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 825.
Richard Frost examines the profound effects that the coming of trains had on Pueblo Indians in New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley, where their arrival was a social and cultural tsunami. It affected community autonomy, privacy, and well-being and destroyed or damaged crops, livestock, and irrigation ditches. The trains brought lawyers, speculators, politicians, missionaries, anthropologists, timber thieves, health seekers, and government servants. While the trains also brought farm tools, clothing for children, and customers for Pueblo pottery, these were comparatively marginal benefits.
The pueblos responded variously, though mostly conservatively, to sustain their communities, and this book spotlights two very different ... Read more
Richard Frost examines the profound effects that the coming of trains had on Pueblo Indians in New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley, where their arrival was a social and cultural tsunami. It affected community autonomy, privacy, and well-being and destroyed or damaged crops, livestock, and irrigation ditches. The trains brought lawyers, speculators, politicians, missionaries, anthropologists, timber thieves, health seekers, and government servants. While the trains also brought farm tools, clothing for children, and customers for Pueblo pottery, these were comparatively marginal benefits.
The pueblos responded variously, though mostly conservatively, to sustain their communities, and this book spotlights two very different ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607814405
SKU
V9781607814405
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Ref
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About Richard H. Frost
Richard Frost is Professor Emeritus of American history and Native American studies at Colgate, USA. He founded Colgate University’s Native American Studies program in Santa Fe, USA, where he now resides. He has served as an expert historical witness for eight of the nineteen pueblos in natural-resource lawsuits.
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