Results for keyword: Water
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Indian Power
Fueled by money from casino gambling, New Mexico’s Indian pueblos and reservations are throwing their political weight into the state’s water tug-of-war
by Paul Krza, Apr 28, 2003 -
Jet Ski riders circle the wagons
In November, personal watercraft will be banned from Lake Powell and seven other Western reservoirs while the Park Service completes an environmental review of the machines' impacts.
by Daniel Kraker, Oct 28, 2002 -
Native Waters
In Native Waters: Contemporary Indian Water Settlements and the Second Treaty Era, scholar Daniel McCool explores the current struggle by tribes to finally get the water they have long been promised by treaty.
by Matt Jenkins, Oct 14, 2002 -
A water tale to set you on fire
Drury Gunn Carr's new documentary follows the Shoshone Tribe's legal battle to change Wyoming water law and win its water rights.
by Rachel Jackson, Dec 03, 2001 -
Floating past ghosts on the Green River
The writer describes a river-rafting trip through the Cataract Canyon on the Green River in Utah.
by Auden Schendler, Aug 29, 2001 -
Lake Coeur d'Alene at stake
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe and the State of Idaho are fighting in the Supreme Court over Lake Coeur d'Alene, with the tribe claiming partial ownership of the lake under a 19th century treaty.
by Kirsten Bovee, Jun 04, 2001 -
'They wasted a lot of money'
Mary Belardo, chair of the Torres-Martinez Band of Desert Cahuilla Indians, talks about the Indian perspective on the Salton Sea.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Jun 19, 2000 -
A tiny tribe wins big on clean water
The Supreme Court rules that the Isleta Pueblo tribe in New Mexico has the right to order the city of Albuquerque to end its dumping in the Rio Grande River.
by Jason Lenderman, Feb 02, 1998 -
Sacred lands shouldn't smell
In his own words, Coeur d'Alene tribal councilman Henry SiJohn decries the pollution of a sacred place.
by Mark Matthews, Nov 25, 1996 -
Utah and the Ute Tribe are at war
Distrust from past betrayals makes Utes stall Utah on Central Utah Project.
by Daniel Mccool, Jun 27, 1994
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