Episode 271: A War Over the Dams
AZ: The History of Arizona podcast

Episode 271: A War Over the Dams

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 202629 min

Carl Hayden’s push to get the Central Arizona Project approved started to clear the hurdles in Congress, only to run straight into two particularly hard obstacles - environmentalists and Amerindian interests.

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Republic on September 23rd about how a 55-acre parcel of land in the Dragoon Mountains had

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I want to start today's episode in something of an unusual manner. Instead of some personal anecdote, historic fact, or veiled reference that will lead us into the heart of this week's episode, I instead want to touch on current events. I was told this week about something really exciting.

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So long time friend of the show, Ben M, called my attention to a piece that ran in the Arizona Republic on September 23rd about how a 55-acre parcel of land in the Dragoon Mountains had been given to the Fort Sill Apache Tribe. This is huge and something that genuinely brightened my day.

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longtime listeners of the podcast know that the Fort Sill Apache are the descendants of the Cheracawa and Warm Springs Apache, who had lost all land in Arizona in 1886 when they were shipped back east as part of the final solution of what to do with Geronimo and anyone like him. And remember that this was after the Cheracawa had lost their reservation in 1876 when they had

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