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Water is life for the Navajo Nation

by Nicole Horseherder February 22, 2013January 24, 2024

Growing up on Black Mesa in northeast Arizona on the Navajo Nation, we often lived like nomads, following our sheep. As a child, I wasn’t aware that other people in America stayed put, living in one place. Whenever I returned home from boarding school during a break, I’d often find my family living somewhere new […]

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