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Little Colorado

American  

noun

  1. a river flowing NW from E Arizona to the E edge of the Grand Canyon, where it flows into the Colorado River. 315 miles (507 km) long.


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Now, the tribes are seeking water from a mix of sources: the Colorado River, the Little Colorado River, plus aquifers and washes on tribal lands in northeastern Arizona.

From Seattle Times May 23, 2024

One company quickly caught up in the new policy is Pumped Hydro Storage, which wants a preliminary permit for a project near the Little Colorado River on Navajo Nation land in Arizona.

From Seattle Times Feb. 22, 2024

If it could reach an agreement with the state, the tribe would have other options, perhaps even the nearby Little Colorado River.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2023

The reservation is bordered by the Colorado, the Little Colorado and the San Juan rivers.

From Washington Times Jun. 22, 2023

Between the two centers of distribution lie the pueblos of the Little Colorado and its tributaries, the home of the ancestors of the Hopi and the Zuñi.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

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