Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Supreme Court’s recent 5-to-4 decision in Arizona v. Navajo Nation continues a legacy of restricted water access for Indigenous peoples and limits their ...
Water is life, native Hawaiians say. A battle is brewing in Maui over one of the most essential resources for human survival: water. Four months after West Maui suffered the deadliest natural disaster ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When David Gover became an attorney with the Native American Rights Fund, he inherited a water rights legal case about as old as he was. The case revolving ...
A little-known fact about the Colorado River is that American Indian tribes own rights to about a quarter of the river. In reality, for most tribes, they are only “paper rights” not amounting to water ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifteen Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million in federal money this year for water rights settlements, the Biden administration announced Thursday. The money will ...
Arizona lawmakers from both parties reintroduced a measure in Congress that will settle water claims for the Navajo and Hopi tribes. The agreement was approved by the tribes and Arizona officials last ...