Floodwater farmers of the lower Colorado — whose 1781 revolt severed Spain's road to California for decades.
Still on their river: Fort Mojave, the Colorado River Indian Tribes and the Quechan, holding some of the Colorado's most senior water rights.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Mojave & Quechan — the shape you scrub through changes in 700 · 1540 · 1781 · 1852.
Kroeber's classic reference contains the foundational ethnographic chapters on the Mojave and Quechan (Yuma) peoples of the lower Colorado River.
Covers the lower Colorado, the Quechan (Yuma) revolt of 1781 and the severed road to California (broad context).
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