Navajo Nation goes to Supreme Court for access to parched Colorado River
For two decades the Navajo Nation has been trying to clarify its right to access the Colorado River.
After 20 years of battling for the right to draw water from the Colorado River, the Navajo Nation takes its case to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.
The river, which is in danger of collapsing under the strain of drought and overuse, runs along the border of the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. But the tribe has never had a right to use that water on its reservation.
Before the Supreme Court on Monday, the Navajo Nation will argue the federal government has failed to live up to its duty to provide the tribe with
