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This moved the Mojave tribe further and further East, until they were mostly dispersed throughout Nevada (where the film is set), and more significantly, no longer recognizable as a nation. The United States “purchased” the Mojave territory in 1853 as part of the Gadsden Purchase, which encouraged the Westward Expansion of white settlers to the Baja region.

#The hills have eyes 1977 movie

The movie was filmed in the Mojave Desert, named after-you guessed it-the Mojave People, who were experts at farming the fertile soil left after its annual flood, as well as hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants. This attempt to return to an idealized past of living as one with nature-a symbolic return to Eden-forgets that this is a land that has already been corrupted by the subjugation and slaughter of its’ indigenous people, which is the basis of Wes Craven’s 1977 film, The Hills Have Eyes. Consequently, many seeking to flee the trappings of American consumer capitalism, much like Shuttleworth himself, sought to “return” to the land that had never belonged to them in the first place. According to Jeffrey Jacob in his book, New Pioneers, Americans in the 1960s began questioning whether a child could even have the true spirit of an American if they were not raised on a farm (2). The back-to-the-land movement was sparked by the proliferation and fear of military operations which caused a crisis of national identity, where the military-industrial complex and American capitalism plucked kids out of the fields and gave them work as replacement parts in city factories, shipping facilities, and retail stores. Shuttleworth went on to found his back-to-the-land survival guide magazine in 1970, before the height of the movement which saw at least one million urban-to-rural migrants by the end of the decade.

In 1958, John Shuttleworth, the eventual creator and editor of the magazine Mother Earth News, dropped out of Indiana’s Ball State University as a sophomore, “for the same reasons that a lot of people are dropping out now: The establishment educational system trains great replacement parts for the military-industrial complex and it turns out wonderful consumers, but it doesn’t teach much about living a satisfying life or developing human potential (1)”.