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PAYA: The Water Story of the Paiute
January 23, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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The Untold Story of America’s Longest Lived Water War.
This film documents the history of Paiute native Americans who constructed and managed 60 miles of intricate irrigation systems in Owens Valley for millennia long before LA secured its largest source of water through modern engineering a century ago.
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