This Cucapa Indian village in the Colorado Delta grew up by a great waterway, rich with fish, farms and forests. Now, flyblown and forgotten, it has learned the hard way about thirst. No more fishing.
Trees are dead.
No one plants. The wells are dry. Men catch the odd catfish or bass to supplement wages as laborers when work can be found. But nothing much grows in their parched, salty fields. Mostly, the village languishes.