CHI CH'IL (acorns): Dissolution of traditional Dilzhe'e gathering practice(s) due to federal control of the landscape

Christopher Coder; Vincent Randall; Elizabeth Smith-Rocha; Rozella Hines

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CHI CH'IL (acorns): Dissolution of traditional Dilzhe'e gathering practice(s) due to federal control of the landscape

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Christopher Coder, Vincent Randall, Elizabeth Smith-Rocha, Rozella Hines

Year:

2005

Type:

Proceedings

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Gottfried, Gerald J.; Gebow, Brooke S.; Eskew, Lane G.; Edminster, Carleton B., comps. Connecting mountain islands and desert seas: biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II. Proc. RMRS-P-36. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station: 277-281

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Abstract

The radical transformation of the Southwestern landscape over the last century has had multiple repercussions. It is our belief that it was confiscation of the Dilzhe’e (Tonto Apache) home country, combined with evolving control of the land by Federal agencies after 1905, as much as the wars of conquest, which caused the dissolution of traditional Dilzhe’e, practice(s) and associated wisdom. In support of that claim this short paper focuses on the personal experience of Dilzhe’e Elders of the Yavapai-Apache Nation.

Parent Publication

Connecting mountain islands and desert seas: Biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II

Keywords

acorns, land management, resources, water, history, Native Americans

Citation

Coder, Christopher; Randall, Vincent; Smith-Rocha, Elizabeth; Hines, Rozella. 2005. CHI CH''IL (acorns): Dissolution of traditional Dilzhe''e gathering practice(s) due to federal control of the landscape. In: Gottfried, Gerald J.; Gebow, Brooke S.; Eskew, Lane G.; Edminster, Carleton B., comps. Connecting mountain islands and desert seas: biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II. Proc. RMRS-P-36. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station: 277-281