Little Colorado
Americannoun
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Navajo additionally would have the right to draw 40,780 acre-feet from the Little Colorado River — about one-third of what’s estimated to reach the reservation annually.
From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024
The water would come from a mix of sources: the Colorado River that serves seven western states, the Little Colorado River, and aquifers and washes on tribal lands.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024
Two cases in Arizona state court that involve various tribes — one to divide the Gila River and another for the Little Colorado River — have dragged on for decades.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2023
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
It is said to have been settled by the Patuñ or Squash people, whose original home was far to the south, on Little Colorado river.
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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