Pati enters the United States through Montana and Wyoming. On the Blackfeet Reservation, buffalo and a nearly lost language are coming back. Farther south, women entrepreneurs and a community wool mill are rebuilding rural economies.

Pati enters the United States through Montana and Wyoming. On the Blackfeet Reservation, buffalo and a nearly lost language are coming back. Farther south, women entrepreneurs and a community wool mill are rebuilding rural economies.

Pati journeys from Denver's jazz-filled Five Points south into the New Mexico desert. Along the way she picks up the Rio Grande near its source and follows it down. She finds music, farming, adobe building, and traditions that outlasted centuries.

Pati journeys from Denver's jazz-filled Five Points south into the New Mexico desert. Along the way she picks up the Rio Grande near its source and follows it down. She finds music, farming, adobe building, and traditions that outlasted centuries.

Pati travels through Arizona's Sonoran Desert. She finds Chinese chorizo, desert noir music, street poetry, and a baseball team drawn from tribes across the country. Together they reveal a desert defined not by scarcity, but by abundance.

Pati travels through Arizona's Sonoran Desert. She finds Chinese chorizo, desert noir music, street poetry, and a baseball team drawn from tribes across the country. Together they reveal a desert defined not by scarcity, but by abundance.