Forced to Abandon Our Fields Richael Barger-Anderson In the three years since

In the three years since they last spoke

Intersectionality is a tool for analysis

The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it

of individual and collective courage

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Forced to Abandon Our Fields Richael Barger-Anderson In the three years sinceDuring the nineteenth century, upstream diversions from the Gila River decreased the arable land on the Gila River Indian Reservation to only a few thousand acres. As a result the Pima Indians, primarily an agricultural people, fell into poverty. Many Pima farmers and leaders lamented this suffering and in 1914 the United States Indian Irrigation Service assigned a 33 year old engineer named Clay ""Charles"" Southworth to oversee the Gila River