• Culture
  • The Cucupa Indians, the Colorado's River People
  • River People without a river
  • What the Colorado is asked to do...
  • Will the Colorado River Compact be abrogated?
  • Denver's Aurora to tap the Gunnison
  • Colorado River defines the West
  • Creation of Lake Powell
  • Powell on the future of water
  • Palms Springs and water
  • Conservation a limited tool
  • Resistance to xeriscaping
  • Indian use of the Colorado
  • Lack of a real river for Indian life
  • Ten tribes set to affect water rights
  • Indian reliance on non-Indians
  • Nature as culture-shaper
  • Wittfogel brings nature back as major cultural factor
  • Dominance of agriculture prior to industry
  • Attitudes toward water and irrigation under capitalist system
  • Faith in scientific elite makes society 'herdlike'
  • Technology is not neutral, but culturally subjective
  • Technology and cultural practice
  • Uses of the term 'technology'
  • "Indians Schmindians" -- current attitudes
  • Indian "issues" not a thing of the past
  • Indians today in the U.S.
  • Assault attitude toward the earth
  • Attitude that our society is the pinnacle of evolution
  • Turner and the Frontier Legacy
  • The Turner Thesis and the American Desert
  • Paradox Valley's Rugged Inhabitants
  • Great American Desert: Myth v. Real Significance
  • Early Significance of Southwest Desert
  • What is the Value of the Desert?

• Geography
  • The Colorado River
  • Military: Using the Desert's Vacant Space
  • Gambling: Another Way to Make Use of the Desert
  • Colorado tributary Dolores River and Paradox Valley
  • Making deserts bloom at the expense of others
  • Colorado River Compact Facts

• Organization
  • Who was John Wesley Powell?
  • Ways of Looking at an Isolated River Canyon?
  • Mid-20th Century: No Policy Guides
  • Choosing Among Conflicting Uses of Scare Resources
  • Turner's Erroneous Close of the Frontier
  • Negotiating the CR Compact
  • Patchwork experiment near Denver
  • Colorado River water war
  • Growth in Aurora
  • George Anderson: Drought Police
  • Capacity of Lake Powell
  • California's appropriation of the Colorado
  • Water conservation in Los Angeles
  • More drought police
  • Growth control not the job of a water agency
  • Water as a commodity
  • Ak-Chin sue for their water
  • Water disappears in California
  • Moving toward tribal control of resources
  • Tribal success stories
  • CERT's goals
  • Environmental concerns have political underpinnings
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Indian issues not a thing of the past
  • Water as power
  • Water as power in Asia
  • Hydraulic societies
  • Classing irrigation societies
  • Irrigation society: Local subsistence
  • Irrigation society: Supra-village regime
  • Consequences of supra-village regime
  • Irrigation society: Capitalist water system
  • Domination of water and nature
  • Egypt: Abandoning old ways for new
  • Asia: Confucianist vs. Taoist water regimes
  • American water control

• Technology
  • Turn of the Century: Irrigation as New Opportunity
  • Naming of Lake Powell
  • The Desert: Americans and Relationship to Nature
  • Military: Bombing the Desert
  • Gambling as Fitting Use of the Desert
  • Hoover Dam
  • Native Americans in a position to influence domestic energy policy
  • Indian energy projects
  • Gerry Mander on technology
  • 'Technotopia' failing
  • Theory on origins of irrigation
  • Subsistence irrigation
  • Origin of massive irrigation
  • Consequences of massive irrigation
  • Asia: Chinese water use
  • 1940s: U.S. has best water management

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