The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation of Arizona spent ten years organizing and protesting the building of the Orme Dam. They won the battle when Interior Secretary James Watt announced that Orme Dam would not be built. The dam was a Central Arizona Project plan that would have flooded more than half the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation reservation, most of their farmland, and the remnants of ancestral homeland.
Published: July 31, 2023
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