A tribal nation has declared the Colorado River a legal person. An Indigenous leader says it reflects how her people have ...

The personhood designation for the river is part of a broader "rights of nature" movement that aims to bestow new legal ...

Two-thirds of the tribes with lands and water rights in the Colorado River Basin are calling for equal status in developing new river management guidelines and protection of their senior water rights ...

The Colorado River Indian Tribes, along Arizona's western edges, would become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant a river personhood rights. The move is part of a worldwide ...

The 1922 Colorado River Compact, a foundational interstate agreement that informs the management of a river that serves 40 million people, did not settle Native American tribes’ water rights. Tribes ...

A little-known fact about the Colorado River is that American Indian tribes own rights to about a quarter of the river. In reality, for most tribes, they are only “paper rights” not amounting to water ...

For years, members of the Walker River Paiute Tribe who depend on well water have been plagued by water scarcity, brought on by a lack of infrastructure and funding. Between aging pipes, pollutants ...

The “Tule River Tribe Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025,” introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-California), advanced from the Committee on Indian Affairs and will be ...

Government shutdown slows long running quest by Tule River Indian Tribe for rights to its namesake river The Tule River River Indian Tribe’s 54-year-long quest to secure rights to the South Fork of ...

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe filed two motions in a federal district court. — -- A Native American tribe has filed the first legal challenge to block the nearly finished Dakota Access Pipeline ...

The Colorado River Indian Tribes of California and Arizona voted to give their namesake waterway the same legal rights as a person.