Save the Confluence 3rd Annual Cookout and Gathering is scheduled for November 7-8, 2025, in Bodaway, Arizona. This special event will bring together families and community members dedicated to the preservation and understanding of the sacred significance of the Confluence of Little Colorado and Colorado Rivers.
Save the Confluence members talk about their connection to the land near the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers.
“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.
Save the Confluence sent a letter March 4 to a federal commission asking to deny a feasibility study for a pumped-hydro dam near the Lower Little Colorado River in Western Navajo Nation.
A federal regulatory commission is giving people with an interest in the proposed Big Canyon Pumped Storage Project in Western Navajo Nation a month to submit comments about a pending preliminary permit.