![View of water along the North Atlantic Seaboard.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Figure-1-zigzag-Gomez-Barris-1.jpg?fit=330%2C220&ssl=1)
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![View of water along the North Atlantic Seaboard.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Figure-1-zigzag-Gomez-Barris-1.jpg?fit=330%2C220&ssl=1)
![Reminiscent of graffiti on Alcatraz Island, Indian Land is written across a concrete divider. Dividers were used as barricades to stop water protectors nearing construction of the DAPL pipeline. Image courtesy of Alex Flett.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IndianLand.2016.AlexFlett.jpg?fit=330%2C220&ssl=1)
The Political Binds of Oil versus Tribes
In late 2018, while researching the connections between environmental justice and Indigenous womxn’s activism[1], I was invited to story about how water might respond to environmental injustice and racism. In preparation, I thought about how the lands and peoples to which I belong struggle against “slow violence” brought on by the toxic effects of uranium contamination and nuclear pollution…
![A picture of a levee on a foggy day.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fig-11.jpg?fit=330%2C235&ssl=1)
There’s Something in The Water
This essay is a collage of images and writing from an ongoing project “Reading the River: Yemayá and Oshun.” I am approaching it as is an experimental documentary that looks at the relationship between Blackness and the Mississippi River as a collision of ideas, cultural practices, political geographies, and intimacies…
![Figure 10: I. Tanesse’s 1815 survey map of New Orleans. Note lower left inset image depicting Benjamin Latrobe’s New Orleans waterworks, featured as one of the city’s dozen most noteworthy buildings.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Figure06-1.jpg?fit=330%2C211&ssl=1)
Industrial Ornament, Modern Symbol: New Orleans’ First Waterworks on the Mississippi River
The second city in U.S. history to debut a modern industrial urban waterworks system was New Orleans Designed and built between 1811 and 1820, the New Orleans Waterworks displayed the most advanced innovations of its day, both in hydraulic engineering technology and in aesthetic architectural design…