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Like so many brown-skinned inhabitants of the Americas, the Río Grande may not be beautiful through European eyes. In the desert reaches of the Americas though, the brown waters of the lower Río Grande are a beautiful, living-giving force. She is but another form of Chalchiuhtlicue, the Aztec goddess of water. She is the protector of mothers in childbirth, babies, fishermen, and navigators. The Aztec view of water as a goddess bestows an attribute of vitality to the environment that the Anglo-centric ideas of the American Dream, Manifest Destiny, and capitalism violate when people pollute and misuse the river.