“We continue to offer prayers with our corn pollen at this site, seeking to communicate with the mighty rivers, wind, sky, and sacred-banded rock canyons, and petitioning for prosperity, from harm and optimal health” wrote Delores Wilson-Aguirre about Navajo dieties at the Confluence
The proposed legislation by Save the Confluence, to designate parts of the Grand Canyon East Rim on the Navajo Nation into traditional religious sites, seeks chapter backing before it makes its way to the Navajo Nation Council.
(If) ‘some communities don’t want tourism, then we look at other options.”’
A jubilant group of Save of the Confluence members, scored a second victory of fending off developers who show up with dreams to develop the Navajo Nation portion of the majestic Grand Canyon.
Navajo Nation officials on Tuesday filed new opposition to a plan to pump groundwater from near the Little Colorado River and flood hundreds of acres of tribal land to generate electricity for cities in the Southwest.