Gladwyn d’Souza<p>The legal battle, one of the tribe’s largest expenses in recent years, resulted in May 2022 with the court awarding less than a third of the water sought by the Hopi Tribe. That was the amount needed, the court said, “to provide a permanent homeland.”</p><p>“I would define it as modern-day <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>genocide</span></a>,” Nuvangyaoma said. “Withholding <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>water</span></a>, which is <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> for the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Hopis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hopis</span></a>, until an undetermined time is really a position to kill off a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/tribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tribe</span></a> that’s been here since <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>time</span></a> immemorial.”</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-water-ruling-hopi-tribe-limits-future" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/arizona</span><span class="invisible">-water-ruling-hopi-tribe-limits-future</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/fossilfuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fossilfuel</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/colonialim" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>colonialim</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Peabody" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peabody</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>coal</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonial</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/settlements" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>settlements</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/economic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>economic</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>development</span></a></p>