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The Settler Sea - California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism (Paperback)
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The Settler Sea - California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism (Paperback)
Series: Many Wests
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2022 WHA Caughey Western History Prize for the most distinguished
book on the American West Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a
sea that exists only in the form of incongruous, head-scratching
contradictions: a wetland in a desert, a wildlife refuge that
poisons birds, a body of water in which fish suffocate? Traci
Brynne Voyles's history of the Salton Sea examines how settler
colonialism restructures physical environments in ways that further
Indigenous dispossession, racial capitalism, and degradation of the
natural world. In other words, The Settler Sea asks how settler
colonialism entraps nature to do settlers' work for them. The
Salton Sea, Southern California's largest inland body of water,
occupies the space between the lush agricultural farmland of the
Imperial Valley and the austere desert called "America's Sahara."
The sea sits near the boundary between the United States and Mexico
and lies at the often-contested intersections of the sovereign
lands of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuillas and the state of
California. Created in 1905, when overflow from the Colorado River
combined with a poorly constructed irrigation system to cause the
whole river to flow into the desert, this human-maintained body of
water is considered a looming environmental disaster. The Salton
Sea's very precariousness-existing always in the interstices of
human and natural influences, between desert and wetland, between
the skyward pull of the sun and the constant inflow of polluted
water-is both a symptom and symbol of the larger precariousness of
settler relationships to the environment, in the West and beyond.
Voyles provides an innovative exploration of the Salton Sea,
looking to the ways the sea, its origins, and its role in human
life have been vital to the people who call this region home.
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