EL MAYOR 1982
COCOPAH PHOTOS SERIES 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Amy Smith Cocopah Family Scrapbook Series
Amy Smith, young Cocopah Indian girl (in white tanktop), grew up on the Colorado River in the El Mayor Indian community, Baja California, Mexico, Wi Shpa, Eagle Mountain area.
Pictured in 1980s l-r: Amy's Aunt Letty (in red dress holding large Colorado River catfish), and sisters Gina and Shombe gather around a large river catfish.
This Cocopah historical picture of young Indian river people was used as a DVD cover for a Kalim Smith UCSD movie documentary, Right of Passage, A Nation Divided.
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Personal notes from a young Cocopah woman: My sisters, aunts and I would spend all day at the river swimming, fishing, and just hanging out till we heard our mother yelling for us to come home. We would sometimes catch crawdads and sardines by hand and take them home to my mom to cook for us. I remember eating fish very often on the river; about five days a week we ate fresh fish from the river. -Amparo "Amy" Smith, young Cocopah woman, 2006 |
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