Displaced by Temascal Dam, Mexico
Displaced residents leave the area via evacuation boat. The forced removal of 22,000-25,000 Mazatec and other Indigenous residents to make way for Temascal Dam disrupted traditional lifeways--including the region's microfundio agricultural system--and accelerated language loss among Mazatec speakers who relocated to primarily Spanish-speaking towns and cities.
About this community
- River
- Tonto River
- Established
- 1500
- Inundated
- 1954
Sources
- https://relatosehistorias.mx/nuestras-historias/el-drama-del-progreso-por-el-dominio-del-papaloapan
- Jean-Léo Léonard and Vittorio Dell’Aquila, "Mazatec (Popolocan, Eastern Otomanguean) as a Multiplex Sociolinguistic 'Small World,'" Languages of Smaller Populations : Risks and Possibilities (2012).
- Scott Robinson, "The Experience with Dams and Resettlement in Mexico," World Commission on Dams.