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Supreme Court conservatives reject Navajo Nation's water rights case
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:52:03
Publish Date: 2023-08-03 16:36:07
Description: On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that a 1868 treaty with the Navajo Nation does not require the US government to secure water access for the tribe. 48% of tribal homes do not have access to reliable water sources, clean drinking water, or basic sanitation, and Native households are 19 times more likely than white households to lack indoor plumbing, according to the Tribal Clean Water Initiative. More than 150 years after the country’s largest tribe signed treaties recognizing its sovereignty, almost a third of the over 170,000 people who live on the Navajo reservation do not have access to reliable drinking water, according to the tribe. How will tribes continue to fight for water rights after this ruling?
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