CUCAPA MOUNTAINS COCOPAH

The very distinctive Cucapa mountains of the aboriginal Native American Cocopah Indian territory, a Yuman speaking Indian nation indigenous to Southern California, southwest Arizona, and northern Baja California, Mexico, are pictured here from the Mexican tribal village of El Mayor.

INDIAN HOUSING Rural Mexican Tribal Village

The 2004 photograph documents Cocopah homes Indian housing in Mexico, including an old trailer, two brick structures, and two outhouses, one modern plastic and one traditional wooden.

This Cocopah video JPEG was originally digitally photographed for a Kalim Smith UCSD multimedia DVD movie documentary, "Right of Passage, A Nation Divided."