Join Border/Arte and artist-researchers for a 3-day investigation with Cristina Tohono to learn with Tohono O'odham leaders about cultural relationships to water, land, migration, as well as pressing political issues regarding borders, mining, and migration.
This trip is part of Border/Arte's DELTA project, which focuses on water, borders, and land in the Colorado River Delta. DELTA works with communities and artists to establish public dialogues and engagements of social concern as a means of basebuilding, resource redistribution, and organizing against state-sponsored aggression.
We are fortunate to be led by Cristina of the Tohono O'odham Nation and can only accommodate a small group. All trip costs go to paying for Cristina's leadership, trip materials, and a voluntary Land Tax payment to TO Nation.
Pinacate desert and volcanic landforms provide an exceptional combination of features of great scientific interest. The vast sea of sand dunes that surrounds the volcanic shield is considered the largest and most active dune system in North America. It includes a diverse range of dunes that are nearly undisturbed, and include spectacular and very large star-shaped dunes that occur both singly and in long ridges up to 48km in length. The volcanic exposures provide important complementary geological values, and the desert environment assures a dramatic display of a series of impressive large craters and more than 400 cinder cones, lava flows, and lava tubes. Taken together the combination of earth science features is an impressive laboratory for geological and geomorphological studies.
Two hours from Pinacate, we will drive to Bahia del Adair and Campo La Salina. The Campo is a natural salt lagoon that carries great importance for the Tohono O'odham people, serving as a sacred pilgrimage site. This silver-blue lagoon is situated apart from the Sea of Cortez by a narrow sandbar. Its formation is attributed to the Colorado River channels flowing beneath the delta. Currently, there are illegal mining corporations extracting resources from the lagoon, prompting members of the Tohono O'odham Nation to protest and take action against this unlawful encroachment.
*This trip is not a vacation luxury trip, but a self-sufficient trip that requires participants to bring their own food/materials including camping gear and staying at a rustic hostel with limited electricity and no cell towers, run in collaboration with the TO Nation in Sonora, MX.
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This trip is part of Border/Arte's DELTA project, which focuses on water, borders, and land in the Colorado River Delta. DELTA works with communities and artists to establish public dialogues and engagements of social concern as a means of basebuilding, resource redistribution, and organizing against state-sponsored aggression.
We are fortunate to be led by Cristina of the Tohono O'odham Nation and can only accommodate a small group. All trip costs go to paying for Cristina's leadership, trip materials, and a voluntary Land Tax payment to TO Nation.
Pinacate desert and volcanic landforms provide an exceptional combination of features of great scientific interest. The vast sea of sand dunes that surrounds the volcanic shield is considered the largest and most active dune system in North America. It includes a diverse range of dunes that are nearly undisturbed, and include spectacular and very large star-shaped dunes that occur both singly and in long ridges up to 48km in length. The volcanic exposures provide important complementary geological values, and the desert environment assures a dramatic display of a series of impressive large craters and more than 400 cinder cones, lava flows, and lava tubes. Taken together the combination of earth science features is an impressive laboratory for geological and geomorphological studies.
Two hours from Pinacate, we will drive to Bahia del Adair and Campo La Salina. The Campo is a natural salt lagoon that carries great importance for the Tohono O'odham people, serving as a sacred pilgrimage site. This silver-blue lagoon is situated apart from the Sea of Cortez by a narrow sandbar. Its formation is attributed to the Colorado River channels flowing beneath the delta. Currently, there are illegal mining corporations extracting resources from the lagoon, prompting members of the Tohono O'odham Nation to protest and take action against this unlawful encroachment.
*This trip is not a vacation luxury trip, but a self-sufficient trip that requires participants to bring their own food/materials including camping gear and staying at a rustic hostel with limited electricity and no cell towers, run in collaboration with the TO Nation in Sonora, MX.
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