Arizona: Senators Seek To Extinguish Navajo And Hopi Water Rights

Arizona: Senators Seek To Extinguish Navajo And Hopi Water Rights   Senators Jon Kyl (R- AZ) and John McCain (R-AZ) are coming to Tuba City on Thursday, April 5, 2012, to persuade Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribal leaders to give up their peoples’ aboriginal and Treaty-guaranteed priority Water Rights by accepting a “Settlement Agreement” written to benefit some of the West’s most powerful mining and energy corporations.   Senate Bill 2109 --the "Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water...

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