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John Trotter Freelance
"No Agua, No Vida: The Slow Death of the Colorado River Delta"


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"Pasquala" Pascuala Sainz, 88, the oldest living Cucap? Indian, lives alone in a shack surrounded by tamarisk, a non-native, invasive plant species that has taken over the Colorado River corridor. The Cucap?s' for themselves means "people of the river" in their language. Though they were as many as twenty-thousand strong and famously friendly when the Spanish arrived in the 16th-century, only about three-hundred members of the tribe still exist in Mexico.
 

 

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