A partial history of the indigenous Owens Valley Paiute peoples and their relationships to water is presented for the purpose of understanding the Owens Valley Paiute resistance against the water transfer from Owens Valley to Los Angeles. This historical narrative focuses on the early to mid-twentieth century and the Paiutes' pre-contact sociopolitical organization. This thesis will add to the existing literature on the water transfer with new interpretations and perspectives regarding how and why water is culturally important for the Owens Valley Paiute peoples. The central research question for this thesis is why did the Owens Valley Paiute peoples resist the water transfer? The answer to this question is found within how water is thought...
The current U.S. government policy of Indian Self-Determination is determined by the principle of tr...
The Paiute of Owens Valley had by early historic time progressed to a substantial extent along the p...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-109).This thesis provides an examination of the archa...
This thesis argues that Owens Valley Paiute sovereignty manifested itself both inherently and adapti...
A broad examination of settler colonial hegemony of the City of Los Angeles and its municipal water ...
This dissertation offers a critical reassessment of the emblematic water conflict over the Los Angel...
Like many other Native Americans, the Bishop Paiute in California have long faced an uphill battle i...
The ability to decisively benefit from ample sources of freshwater represents a pivotal challenge fo...
In the context of historic and ongoing California Indian resistance to displacement at the headwater...
The Navajo peoples, who refer to themselves as Diné, are one among many Indigenous cultures whose ri...
Water is a basic necessity for survival, so how a culture chooses to use the water resources availab...
Perhaps the most publicized water transfer in the history of the West\ud involved Los Angeles' diver...
Indigenous peoples in North America have a long history of understanding their societies as having a...
The following pages recount the struggle and criticism that went into bringing the first imported wa...
.Nineteenth-century Mormon settlers in Utah combined a unique set of religious beliefs with a ferven...
The current U.S. government policy of Indian Self-Determination is determined by the principle of tr...
The Paiute of Owens Valley had by early historic time progressed to a substantial extent along the p...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-109).This thesis provides an examination of the archa...
This thesis argues that Owens Valley Paiute sovereignty manifested itself both inherently and adapti...
A broad examination of settler colonial hegemony of the City of Los Angeles and its municipal water ...
This dissertation offers a critical reassessment of the emblematic water conflict over the Los Angel...
Like many other Native Americans, the Bishop Paiute in California have long faced an uphill battle i...
The ability to decisively benefit from ample sources of freshwater represents a pivotal challenge fo...
In the context of historic and ongoing California Indian resistance to displacement at the headwater...
The Navajo peoples, who refer to themselves as Diné, are one among many Indigenous cultures whose ri...
Water is a basic necessity for survival, so how a culture chooses to use the water resources availab...
Perhaps the most publicized water transfer in the history of the West\ud involved Los Angeles' diver...
Indigenous peoples in North America have a long history of understanding their societies as having a...
The following pages recount the struggle and criticism that went into bringing the first imported wa...
.Nineteenth-century Mormon settlers in Utah combined a unique set of religious beliefs with a ferven...
The current U.S. government policy of Indian Self-Determination is determined by the principle of tr...
The Paiute of Owens Valley had by early historic time progressed to a substantial extent along the p...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-109).This thesis provides an examination of the archa...