The Hopi Tribe Fights Arizona for Its Right to Water / Umar Farooq

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Today's interview features Umar Farooq, author of the article, "‘The fight for our lives’: Arizona’s water regime limits the Hopi Tribe’s future" published in High Country News in collaboration with ProPublica. Umar Farooq is Umar Farooq is an Ancil Payne Fellow with ProPublica. Check out the article here: https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.7/indigenous-affairs-water-the-fight-for-our-lives-arizona-water-regime-limits-the-hopi-tribes-future See more ProPublica reporting on indigenous Americans' fight for the promised resource of water here: https://www.propublica.org/series/waiting-for-water

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0:00.0	Take me to the body of the song.
0:03.0	I want to see.
0:04.0	I.
0:05.0	I.
0:07.0	The Lord is
0:08.0	The Lord is with me.
0:12.0	The Lord is with the Walthus of our power in the water
0:15.0	the last night Meechter!
0:17.0	You're welcome to be old. No.
0:25.0	Second welcome, now. Second welcome, now. This is hell.
0:36.0	Yes.
0:38.0	is hell.
0:39.0	Okay, okay.
0:40.0	Live from the... there you go, live from land stolen from the Potawatomy people.
0:48.6	This is hell in the United States history of settler colonialism.
0:53.8	An expropriation of land is far from being limited
0:56.8	to the area where I'm sitting right now.
0:59.6	In fact, history education in the United States
1:01.8	is so poor, it's likely that the vast
1:05.1	majority of people here in the West Ridge and Rogers Park neighborhoods in
1:09.6	Chicago actually know the name of the tribe that once called this home or the many other tribes
1:16.1	that utilize the area as a seasonal hunting ground. The Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Miami also shared the region with many many other tribes
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