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The latest from Save the Confluence
Grand Canyon Trust Intern learns about tribes, threats to their sacred sites
I met with tribes along the Grand Canyon and Little Colorado River. Each had its own cultural emergence stories that connect them to the canyon and river.
Sign a petition to save Big Canyon from destructive water project
Join Save the Confluence in saying NO to the proposed Big Canyon pumped hydro storage project on a tributary to the Little Colorado River
Without a tourist eye at Grand Canyon East rim
Before seeing the Confluence, I had only seen the Grand Canyon once, despite being raised and having lived in the Navajo Nation for years. My experience on the Desert View rim of the canyon had a touristy feel to it. I felt like I did not experience my first Grand Canyon visit to the fullest extent, though I did feel amazed at how vast and awe-inspiring the canyon was.
GCT intern learns about how development impacts sacred sites
Editor's Note: This is Kayla Yazzie's guest essay about a trip to the Grand Canyon East Rim in western Navajo Nation in May. The trip was to the area high above the rim of the Little Colorado and Colorado River called the Confluence. Yazzie is a Grand Canyon...
A chance to view Grand Canyon east rim from above
The Grand Canyon Trust is offering a chance for Native youth to view the canyon from above this month.
A bill to protect Navajo sacred sites starts to move
The sacred site bill seeks to protect canyons, waterways of portions of Grand Canyon East rim on the Navajo Nation. The move comes amidst a developer’s plan to extract groundwater to generate electricity for cities.
Grand Canyon Trust hiring two interns
Save the Confluence seeks an intern to increase younger peoples’ awareness of and advocacy efforts around the Little Colorado River.
Oral stories honors Little Colorado River
Two members of Save the Confluence families are part of storytellers featured in a video celebration of the Little Colorado River.
Family activists hit crossroads
Even though the gondola proposal is dead, developers continue to try to exploit the area. Everything from proposals to drill for water in a land already stricken by long-term drought, to bringing Jeeps loaded with tourists onto the land continue to be pitched. Families, just struggling to survive on the land, as they have for generations, live in shacks with leaky roofs, no electricity and no water unless it is hauled in by truck. Above all, the very culture of the people is at stake.
Developer surrenders two dam permits on Little Colorado River
A Phoenix dam developer pulled permits Monday on two proposed dam projects on the Little Colorado River on the Navajo Nation after the feds issued an ultimatum to update his proposal.
Feds puts dam developer on notice
A federal agency put a Phoenix developer on notice: Update information about two proposed dams by Friday on Navajoland. Otherwise, permits will be cancelled.
Trust hires new director for Grand Canyon
“We believe the Big Canyon Dam remains the developer’s priority, but we are ready to take action when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) makes any decision related to the dams,” said Amanda Podmore
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