Diverting the Gila: The Pima Indians and the Florence-Casa Grande Project, 1916-1928

The author provides a detailed study of good intentions, betrayal, and compromise to resolve the use of the Gila River by the Pima and white farmers in central Arizona. It also is the story of greed with an underlying foundation of racism on the part of white landowners against the Pima. In Arizona and the West, water is power—economic, social, and political. Its use is not neutral, and the Pima did not have it." - R. Douglas Hurt, author of The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences