Lozen’s specific contribution during river crossings — her knowledge of the terrain, her physical capability, and the specific application of her gift to ensure that the crossing could be made without encountering enemy forces — appears in the oral accounts as an important and specific contribution to the band’s tactical mobility.

The rivers are still there.

The specific crossings that appear in the accounts of the resistance — the places where bands crossed at night, where they forded in flood conditions, where they lost horses and occasionally people — can be approximately located on a modern map.

The terrain has changed with development and water management, but the basic geography persists.

The Rio Grande still runs through southern New Mexico and West Texas; the Gila still flows through Arizona; the rivers of the Sierra Madre still drain the mountains of northern Mexico.

These are the rivers of Lozen’s world.