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Introduction -- The journey of pook -- Native histories and the interior world -- Europeans and the interior world -- The view from Huwaaly Kwasakyav -- Trading and raiding networks -- The expansion of interregional raiding -- Pascual's warning -- The end of Native autonomy -- Shifting strategies within new national borders -- The view from the Colorado River, 2013 -- Appendix 1: Tables -- Appendix 2: List of missions relevant to the interior world -- Appendix 3: Tribal names -- Appendix 4: Population figures of selected Native communities. The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, an essential part of the plans and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first century, however it must be understood first as the home of a complex Indigenous world. Through 300 years of western colonial settlement, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans all encountered vast Indigenous borderlands, examining the cultural geography of the Southwest the author shows how this interior world solidified to create an autonomous, inter-ethnic Indigenous space that expanded and adapted throughout the centuries before and after Spanish contact. |
