Shaylih Muehlmann
Where the River Ends
- ISBN 13:
- 9780822354451
- author:
- Shaylih Muehlmann
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 22.86 x 14.99 x 1.52 centimetres
- Genre:
- History, Latin America, Mexico,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Colorado River once met the Gulf of California near a small village, but now 90 percent of its water is diverted before it reaches Mexico. This change has had a profound impact on the local Cucapá people, who have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations. Their fishing rights were denied by the Mexican government in 1993, citing environmental grounds, despite the fact that most Cucapá people no longer speak their indigenous language and are highly integrated into nonindigenous social networks. The remaining water is increasingly directed to the manufacturing industry in Tijuana and Mexicali. This book offers a moving look at how the Cucapá 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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