- This land right here is some of the old stomping grounds of the Carrizo Comecrudo.

We joined this case because we were concerned about the blocking of our access to our birthing creation story and that we can't go and give thanks to the creator for giving us life.

[light ethereal music] Our creation story is based on that whole concept that creation follows us on those rivers.

Those rivers are our ancestors.

Those rivers will be us, you know?

And that's what connects us to what's there.

It comes off the Rocky Mountains.

The San Antonio River empties into the Nueces, and all these other places that flow into the river.

We know that these are our ancestors coming together and bring all this beauty into the Rio Grande that goes down into the Gulf of Mexico.

[light ethereal music] All this beauty, all this wonderfulness, all this resiliency that they had was brought into being right here at Boca Chica.

[light ethereal music] And it was like a birthing canal, you know?

It gave birth to first woman.

This is our life ways, this is our very existence, our very spirit is the water.

[ambient music]