Water agreement gives Southern Paiutes a permanent home land
For the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, the Northeastern Indian Water Rights Settlement Act means more than water — it means finally claiming land they can call home. Although the tribe has lived in their current home base for hundreds of years, they were only federally recognized in 1989, and the land they lived on, in northern Arizona and southern Utah, was incorporated into the Navajo Nation. The Paiutes are the only federally recognized tribe in Arizona without a reservation or land.
