The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians: The Impact of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880-1930 - Frost, Richard H.
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Examines the profound effects that the coming of trains had on Pueblo Indians in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley, where their arrival was a social and cultural tsunami. It affected community autonomy, privacy, and well-being and destroyed or damaged crops, livestock, and irrigation ditches. The trains brought lawyers, speculators, politicians, missionaries, anthropologists, timber thieves, health seekers, and government servants.

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Examines the profound effects that the coming of trains had on Pueblo Indians in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley, where their arrival was a social and cultural tsunami. It affected community autonomy, privacy, and well-being and destroyed or damaged crops, livestock, and irrigation ditches. The trains brought lawyers, speculators, politicians, missionaries, anthropologists, timber thieves, health seekers, and government servants.
Autorenporträt
Richard Frost is Emeritus Professor of American history and Native American studies at Colgate University, and now resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has served as an expert historical witness for eight of the nineteen pueblos in several natural-resource lawsuits. In 1991, Frost founded Colgate University's Native American Studies program in Santa Fe.