November 23, 2021
Associate Professor of Peace Studies, Jennifer Bess, publishes new book
Associate Professor of Peace Studies, Jennifer Bess, publishes new book, Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O’odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin (University of Press of Colorado, 2021).
The book examines the ways in which the Akimel O’odham (“River People”) and their
ancestors, the Huhugam, adapted to economic, political and environmental constraints
imposed by federal Indian policy, the Indian Bureau, and an encroaching settler population
in Arizona’s Gila River Valley.
Read the story at:
https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3991-where-the-red-winged-blackbirds-sing