A Profound Story

The Springs

Mandi Campbell, (Timbisha Shoshone)

There are springs everywhere. In my family they knew where it all was. During the summer times they would go higher up towards Wild Rose and get pine nuts and pick different foods up that way and do the hunting and then they would travel back down during the cooler months or they would head towards Beatty.

They would head towards Beatty for antelope and to hunt rabbit but during the hottest part of the time they would really never be down in the valley floor so they would go where springs were and travel to the springs and there's plenty of food. They managed to accumulate exactly what they needed.

Narrator

In a small cavern with an underground spring fed pool along a rock shelf only a few feet in diameter live an improbable group of little survivors. They have one of the fastest evolutionary development cycles of any species on earth, repeatedly isolated in new, extreme environments, and repeatedly adapting to these environments.

These clips together form a profound story of the ways we experience the land and the waters, in the nation's most populous state, and ultimately how we see ourselves.

The story begins in remote Beatty, Nevada and continues down the Amargosa, down the Colorado, and beyond to Tucson and San Diego, home to 40 million people.

The script, in development for a high quality documentary film project and educational campaign, resides here.

Produced by Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone (Nde Western Apache), and Robert Lundahl.

From Creative FRONTLINE

Many thanks to Pat Flanagan for the good idea to index the storytellers in our recent series on Water in the West, The Last Oasis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOtDrSBm40

The Last Oasis Indexed

Selects Film The Last Oasis

From Creative FRONTLINE™ Radio, KPFK Los Angeles, 90.7

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