"By 1850 the Pima Indians of central Arizona had developed a strong and sustainable agricultural economy based on irrigation. As David H. DeJong demonstrates, the Pima were an economic force in the ...

Rechanda Howard, a soft-spoken member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, remembers how her grandfather, Joseph Ray, used to talk about the 90 acres of remote arid land that the federal ...

It’s in the blood. The blood of ancestors that carries a time bomb. The blood of my mother, both my grandmothers, my sister and dozens of relatives bound by an inherited disease. It’s in my blood, too ...

THE introduction to the twenty-sixth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1904–5), 1908, by the chief of the Bureau, Prof. W. H. Holmes, indicates that the staff are zealously carrying ...

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Contains: (1) Letter of transmittal from Grossman to Henry, dated July 10 1871, U.S. Indian Agency, Gila River Reservation, A.T. [Arizona Territory]. (2) An English-Pima dictionary, a Pima-English ...

SAN DIEGO -- Studies conducted in two Native American populations with a high prevalence of both Type 2 diabetes and gum disease have underscored the importance of oral health in controlling adult ...

On the eve of Veterans Day, I would like to take a few moments to tell you a story about a brave American Indian and a government that freed the black man from the plantation but forgot about those ...