Modern Water RightsBLAKE HANI

The Hohokam Tribe

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The Hohokam Tribe

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The Pima Tribe

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The Pima Tribe

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The Navajo Tribe

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The Navajo Tribe

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Discussion Question 1

In our current society, is it really possible to design legislation that gives all people fair

access to water, or will certain groups, like the Navajo, who are at a geographic disadvantage

always going to be on the wrong side of the deal?

Discussion Question 2

How might a society live so that it doesn’t demand more natural resources than are

available? Or is every society destined to grow until it

reaches a breaking point?

Sources• Krech, Shepard. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. Print.

• Weisiger, Marsha. "Gendered Injustice: Navajo Livestock Reduction in the New Deal Era." The Western Historical Quarterly 38.4 (2007): 437. Web.

• DeJong, David H. Forced to Abandon Our Fields: The 1914 Clay Southworth Gila River Pima Interviews. Salt Lake City: U of Utah, 2011. Print.

• http://blackandbrownnews.com/top-stories/u-s-pay-navajo-nation-554-million-largest-settlement-single-indian-tribe