Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis Volume 6: Recovering the Lost History and Cult

Description: Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis Volume 6 by Jared Orsi Tracing the building and erasing of past landscapes to make some of them more visible in the present, Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis reveals how colonial legacies became embedded in national parks - and points to the possibility that such legacies might be undone and those lost landscapes remade. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thriving Oodham communities and their predecessors with roots reaching back at least 12,000 years—along with evidence of their expulsion, the erasure of their past, attempts to recover that history, and the role of the National Park Service (NPS) at every layer. The outlines of the lost landscapes of Quitobaquito—now further threatened by the looming border wall—reemerge in Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis as Jared Orsi tells the story of the land, its inhabitants ancient and recent, and the efforts of the NPS to "reclaim" Quitobaquitos pristine natural form and to reverse the damage done to the Oodham community and culture, first by colonial incursions and then by proponents of "preservation." Quitobaquito is ecologically and culturally rich, and this book summons both the natural and human history of this unique place to describe how people have made use of the land for some five hundred generations, subject to the shifting forces of subsistence and commerce, tradition and progress, cultural and biological preservation. Throughout, Orsi details the processes by which the NPS obliterated those cultural landscapes and then subsequently, as America began to reckon with its colonial legacy, worked with Oodham peoples to restore their rightful heritage. Tracing the building and erasing of past landscapes to make some of them more visible in the present, Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis reveals how colonial legacies became embedded in national parks—and points to the possibility that such legacies might be undone and those lost landscapes remade. Author Biography Jared Orsi is Professor of History at Colorado State University and has served as the Colorado State Historian. He is the author of Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike and Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles. Review "Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis gets to the heart of one of the great debates in the history of conservation: whether there are any true wildernesses—pristine natural areas untouched by human hands—and, when we set aside protected areas like national parks, whether we should remove evidence of human occupation. The author does a marvelous job weaving Oodham oral traditions and histories into this historical account of Quitobaquito."—Thomas E. Sheridan, author of Arizona: A History"With engaging prose, Jared Orsi excavates the layers of Indigenous history that underlie this seemingly untouched nature reserve, details the environmental and cultural devastation of an increasingly hardened border, challenges the National Park Service—and us—to reckon with its colonial past, and points the way toward reconciliation with the Oodham peoples. The result is a fascinating study of a little-known place in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands."—Marsha Weisiger, author of Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country"Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis provides a trenchant analysis of how cultural heritage, modern management policies challenging that heritage, and local to international forces combined to shape a small, contested desert oasis. Quitobaquito is a tiny and unfamiliar space with lessons for the world."—Lary M. Dilsaver, author of Preserving the Desert: A History of Joshua Tree National Park Details ISBN080619295X Author Jared Orsi Publisher University of Oklahoma Press Series Public Lands History Year 2023 ISBN-13 9780806192956 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-10-17 Imprint University of Oklahoma Press Subtitle Recovering the Lost History and Culture of Quitobaquito Place of Publication Oklahoma Country of Publication United States Illustrations 21 b&w illus., 3 maps AU Release Date 2023-10-17 NZ Release Date 2023-10-17 US Release Date 2023-10-17 UK Release Date 2023-10-17 Pages 226 ISBN-10 080619295X DEWEY 979.177 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:151337043;

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