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

摘要

On the cover of Shaylih Muehlmann's book, Where the River Ends, is a photograph of an abandoned fishing boat lying in a dry riverbed. The haunting image has become iconic for the Colorado River, whose waters no longer reach the sea. But Muehlmann's book is not about the (lost) river per se. Rather, it is about the people who have traditionally called the river's delta home-the Cucapa people. The book details how the diversion of the Colorado River, negotiated by state actors without public input, has disrupted not only the river's ecology, but also the social, economic, and political structure of the people living within its basin, particularly those at the delta.