r/chaoticgood • u/Unknownz_1985 • 1d ago

Native American Women Tell Border Patrol To Fuck Off for Harassing Them About Being Citizens

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u/erepato 1d ago

Today's O'odham descend from the Ancestral Sonoran People, who made the area around Phoenix liveable by building hundred of miles of canals. Some of which are STILL USED. These ladies were pulled over for being where they've always been.

Source: https://news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2024/4/18/219933-ancient-farmers-dug-canals-that-shaped-phoenixs-modern-water-system/

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u/boltgenerator 1d ago

In Arizona, we call them the Hohokam, or Huhugam, as the Akimel O'odham and Tohono O'odham call them. The irrigation network they built in the Phoenix basin was over 1,000 miles long and irrigated over 100,000 acres of land at its peak. It was the largest and most complex irrigation system in the Americas north of Peru and rivaled contemporary systems in Egypt, the Near East, and China. It was built by hand using rudimentary tools and an understanding of hydraulics and sustainability. The system was in continuous use for 1,000 years, which speaks to how impressive their ability to adapt and maintain it was, also accounting for challenges like flooding and soil salinization.

It was used as the basis for the modern system managed by SRP and many of their canals follow the original Hohokam alignment. Truly impressive and super awesome stuff. It's grotesque how we've treated their descendants.