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Where the River Ends - Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta (Hardcover, New)
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Where the River Ends - Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta (Hardcover, New)
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Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapa people have relied on
fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last
several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity
and government restrictions. The Colorado River once met the Gulf
of California near the village where Shaylih Muehlmann conducted
ethnographic research, but now, as a result of a treaty, 90 percent
of the water from the Colorado is diverted before it reaches
Mexico. The remaining water is increasingly directed to the
manufacturing industry in Tijuana and Mexicali. Since 1993, the
Mexican government has denied the Cucapa people fishing rights on
environmental grounds. While the Cucapa have continued to fish in
the Gulf of California, federal inspectors and the Mexican military
are pressuring them to stop. The government maintains that the
Cucapa are not sufficiently "indigenous" to warrant preferred
fishing rights. Like many indigenous people in Mexico, most Cucapa
people no longer speak their indigenous language; they are highly
integrated into nonindigenous social networks. Where the River Ends
is a moving look at how the Cucapa people have experienced and
responded to the diversion of the Colorado River and the Mexican
state's attempts to regulate the environmental crisis that
followed.
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