Working For Community: The Yaqui Indians at the Salt River Project
Summary
After fifty years of service,Juan Martinez retired from the Salt River Project on June 20, 1968. From the age of seventeen, Martinez had worked alongside hundreds of other Yaqui Indians maintaining the Salt River Valley’s irrigation system. For much of that time, he lived and raised his family in a company-owned labor camp—one of the largest Yaqui settlements in Arizona. At the camp, corporate interests cultivated the Indian community in a mutually beneficial arrangement that supported the operation and expansion of agriculture and industry in the Salt River Valley.
Cite this Record
Working For Community: The Yaqui Indians at the Salt River Project. Leah S. Glaser, Bruce J. Dinges, William H. Broughton. The Journal of Arizona History. 37 (4): 337-356. 1996 ( tDAR id: 426395) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8426395
Keywords
Culture
Historic
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Historic Native American
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Yaqui
Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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Encampment
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Settlements
Investigation Types
Ethnohistoric Research
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Historic Background Research
Geographic Keywords
Arizona
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Guadalupe
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Maricopa (County)
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Salt River Valley
Spatial Coverage
min long: -112.177; min lat: 33.221 ; max long: -111.69; max lat: 33.476 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager
Repository(s): Salt River Project, Tempe, AZ
Submitted To(s): Arizona Historical Society
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Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager