"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.
