Reclaimed: The Lifeblood of Navajo Nation, Ep. 3 - The People vs. Navajo Nation

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🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week we're sharing a project from our ABC News colleagues called "Reclaimed: The Lifeblood of Navajo Nation" -- a new, four-part podcast series about a community's fight for access to clean water. This is Episode 3 of the series. You can check out all four episodes right now and explore previous seasons of "Reclaimed" on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3dmfJW2), Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3ySLtOM), Amazon Music (https://amzn.to/3foYdCU), or wherever you get your podcasts. In today's episode, the Navajo Nation works towards a settlement for its water rights. But its citizens must decide: How far are they willing to compromise? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brad coming at you on a Friday, and this week we continue to share the podcast series,
0:05.6	Reclaimed, the Lifeblood of Navajo Nation. This is episode three in this four-part series.
0:11.2	Make sure you check out the others. We will be back on Monday with episode four, and that will then
0:16.3	take us into a special New Year's Eve edition of Start Here. So with that, I'll turn it over to Charlie Edsidy and the Reclaimed team.
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0:43.2	It's February 2024.
0:47.4	A winter storm has just blown clean through Arizona,
0:52.1	blanketing the ground with snow from Phoenix all the way up to Flagstaff.
0:56.3	But in the reservation town of Loop, that hasn't stopped people from piling into their local town hall. Thank you, everyone. I see more folks are coming in
1:03.1	and joining us. I really love it. I love a packed house. If you haven't signed in already,
1:08.8	please do so. There are around 30 people in this hall, most in winter boots and big overcoats,
1:17.2	and they sit under some really harsh fluorescent lighting in rows of yellow chairs facing a small platform.
1:24.0	They're mostly older, but there are some younger faces, too.
1:28.3	We'll talk more about that as we get through the slides, but I do want to start the meeting.
1:37.1	Everyone is here to talk about Navajo Water Rights.
1:40.4	I like to say that we've been on a Navajo water rights tour.
1:46.7	We've hit several communities already.
1:49.1	We started in Winder Rock and went to Ganado.
1:51.5	After that, we were in Chinalee.
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