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The mural I painted was more than 160ʹ long and was roughly 7ʹ 5” in height. One section also touches on a number of important issues and regional policies the US government and Mexican regimes designed and imposed on indigenous people in the Southwest. This section also explores the ecological forms of removal and the effects damming along the Colorado River had on floodplains, creating unnatural annual flows, and the introduction of invasive plant and fish species that nearly wiped out the native fish and plants along the shoreline. I also painted forms of new economies on essential waterways, like that of the Casinos along the river from Cocopah to Laughlin. The origin of the westernization of the Colorado River area and its people is discussed in depth in ssss1 of Professor Raat’s work entitled “Treasure Hunters Hunting Deer Hunters: Yavapai and Apache Gold.”

The boarding school section of the mural was informed by my elder relatives’ horror stories of being forced to conform to Western Culture in Boarding Schools. Schools, where the goal was, as Captain Richard Henry Pratt is quoted in the commentary following ssss1 (“The Military and the Boarding School”), “Kill the Indian … and save the man.”