Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to river
The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant personhood rights to a river. ‘Aha Kwahwat, or the Colorado River, has been at the heart of Mojave culture and history for millennia. The river is also critically important to the other three cultures that make up the Colorado River Indian Tribes: the Chemehuevi, whose ancestral lands lie to the northwest of CRIT’s lands, Navajo and Hopi who moved to the area in the 1940s. … Once the tribal membership has completed weighing in … the already-drafted resolution will be put before the tribal council, and once approved, will become part of CRIT’s law.
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