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Where the River Ends: Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta

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Living within the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but within 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, because of a treaty, 90 percent of the water from the Colorado is diverted before it reaches Mexico. The remainder water is an increasing number of directed to the manufacturing industry in Tijuana and Mexicali. Since 1993, the Mexican government has denied the Cucapá people fishing rights on environmental grounds. At the same time as the Cucapá have continued to fish within the Gulf of California, federal inspectors and the Mexican military are pressuring them to stop. The federal government maintains that the Cucapá don’t seem to be sufficiently “indigenous” to warrant preferred fishing rights. Like many indigenous people in Mexico, most Cucapá people no longer speak their indigenous language; they’re highly integrated into nonindigenous social networks. Where the River Ends is a moving take a look at how the Cucapá people have experienced and responded to the diversion of the Colorado River and the Mexican state’s attempts to keep an eye on the environmental crisis that followed.

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