Where the River Ends

Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta

Autor: Shaylih Muehlmann

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Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapa people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistenc...

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Autor

Shaylih Muehlmann

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2013

Pagini

240

EAN

9780822354437

ISBN

0822354438

Enbook ID

04939685

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

476

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 14

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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 used to meet the Gulf of California near the village where Shaylih Muehlmann conducted ethnographic research, but now, as a result of a treaty, 90 per cent 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 and the Mexican state's attempts to regulate the environmental crisis that followed

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