Supreme Court Rules the US Is Not Required To Ensure Access To Water for the Navajo Nation

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14. I lived in Az for years and my folks and sybs have been there since 1970. I worked up in ...

...Wauweap by Page on Lake Powell. The Navajo are a major player in AZ politics and the other reservation are too, contributing millions to AZ's economy in agricultural products, especially cotton.

I also lived on the Omaha Indian Reservation in Nebraska. And they are finally buying up towns and agricultural lands sold to whites when that was allowed. I loved taking my kids onto agricultural fields at night in the summer. The lightening bug displays were amazing. The Sioux farmers did not use insecticides or much fertilizers and still had a good yield.

White owned fields even just across the field wouldn't have a single bug.

My town in Pender, Ne is finally not only on the rez, but now is owned by the rez substantially, if not outright.

The Sioux suffered terribly from the rez system and they are working hard to cure the social effects and create an economic system to fix the harm done by different Washington policies that were just plain criminal in some circumstances and wrong minded even if good intentioned in others.

Casinos mostly do not help, a substantial amount of the profits go off the rez and create a lot of social ills, including crime, domestic violence, addiction.