#chemehuevi

[old-powwow-days]

AMBER MORNINGSTAR, 2019 | NAOMI, 2017 | JULIA, 2018

by Cara Romero as part of her First American Girls series

[cryptidghost]

Just found out that the Colorado River Indian Tribes gave legal personhood to the Colorado River! Let's keep this moving!

Indigenous Nations Extend Legal Personhood to the Colorado River – Intercontinental Cry

The Colorado River Indian Tribes took a key step in Indigenous environmental law by designating the Colorado River — the life source for mil

[comahonyart]

Mojave | 2018

Chris O'Mahony

The Mojave Project Field Trip

Chris O'Mahony

[todaysdocument]

A young woman of Japanese ancestry arrives at the Poston incarceration camp, 5/17/1942. 

This camp was built on the land of the Colorado River Indian Tribes over the objection of the Tribal Council, who did not want to perpetrate the same injustices they faced. 

Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945

Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989

Image description: A young woman using crutches sits on the edge of the bed of an ambulance, which really just looks like a large van with a mattress in it. It is nighttime. A man is standing outside the ambulance.

[bossymarmalade]

-  Cara Romero (Chemehuevi, b. 1977), “Water Memory” (2015)

[macmanx]

Havasu

Cara Romero, 2022

"Havasu" features Chemehuevi Tribal member Sheridan Silversmith suspended weightless in the waters of our Tribe's Colorado River homelands. "Havasu" means place of the blue-green waters. The lesser known story that goes untold in American History is that our Tribe, like many Tribes in the U.S. were flooded out of our ancestral valley when the U.S. Government declared eminent domain over our reservation lands. This image tells a twin history: it pays homage to the violent historic flooding of tribal lands to construct federal dams, yet has a serenity as she floats through the water in free fall suggesting an effortless surrender to the power of Mother Nature. It visualizes the powerful and intimate connections we feel with the element water and the memories it holds. A feeling of peace and embrace and of memory. Sheridan is wearing a cottonwood bark skirt and olivella shell necklace by artist Leah Mata-Fragua.

[thebigkelu]

Chemehuevi mother and child  - Curtis - 1907

The Chemehuevi are an indigenous people of the Great Basin. They are the southernmost branch of Southern Paiute.

[the-painted-pepper]

Desert Oasis

Joshua Tree National Park, California. April 2017