Female Gaze: This year's Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres exhibit tackles old injustices in a virtual gallery | Arts: Feature
For centuries, the Akimel O'odham—the River People—lived on the banks of the Gila River. The bountiful river attracted birds of all kinds, and its waters irrigated the Akimel's crops—corn, beans and squash and, eventually, white winter wheat. The river provided them with food to eat and wares to sell; by the 19th century they were the most dominant venders of white wheat in Territorial Arizona, as anthropologist Tom Sheridan writes in the book Paths of Light. But by the 1860s, white settlers arrived in droves and began cultivating their own crops along the Gila, diverting the wat...
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