Where Do We Go From Here? Navajo Nation's Fight for Water

Sapphire Carter
Vol. 48
December 2024
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Bringing us here has made many of us die, also a great number of our animals. Our Grandfathers had no idea of living in any other place except our own land, and I don’t think it is right for us to do what we were taught not to do. When the Navajo were first made, First Woman pointed out four mountains and four rivers that was to be our land. Our grandfathers told us to never move east of the Rio Grande River nor west of the San Juan River. . . . I hope to God, you will not ask me to go anywhere except my own country.

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