At the Desert's Green Edge: An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima

by Amadeo M. Rea

Book Overview

The Akimel O'odham, or Pima Indians, of the northern Sonoran Desert continue to make their home along Arizona's Gila River despite the alarming degradation of their habitat that has occurred over the past century. The oldest living Pimas can recall a lush riparian ecosystem and still recite more than two hundred names for plants in their environment, but they are the last generation who grew up subsisting on cultivated native crops or wild-foraged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816515409
• ISBN13: 9780816515400
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 459 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.0" x 12.0"