There are organizations here in America that ask for money to build water wells overseas, but I have never heard them say anything at all about the fact the indigineous people whose lands they live on have no fresh drinking water.
WOW yeah I heard since in thee beginning of time our "founding fathers haven't gave a crap about us since the beginning of time'' I'm from Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians sorry to hear bout this matter wow. Hopefully some #Oshkiimaajitahdah helps things get better (that's new beginnings in Ojibwemowin) much love fam
South Dakota Tribes too, no running water on some of those reservations!!!!! It makes me ache we don't have ALL OUR people taken care of... I don't give two rats ass about no tready, the Natives deserve more help with basic municipalities at minimal. No American should be living in a house that you can't pay for water to be turned on...unless you choose not to. Pine Ridge Indian reservation is in desperate need!!!! PLEASE LET'S HELP MORE!!!!!!!!
So glad that people are helping the Navajo residents in need of precious and sacred water. Back in the 1990's I used to visit my adopted family on the Utah portion of the Rez. And I can remember my sisters and brothers having to drive from Aneth to Bluff, Utah to get water from a well at a Mission. They would have put as many 50 gallon plastic barrels in a pickup truck and fill those. It usually lasted about a week before they had to get more. And because there was no water they had an outhouse, and it was miserable to walk to in winter, let me tell you. But by the early 2000's the Navajo nation brought in a water line and built them a bathroom and installed plumbing as well as a septic pond. But they messed up the sewage pond and didn't place it low enough so they couldn't shower as the water would back up into the tub. Heaven forbid if you used the toilet. When you flushed it too would back up into the tub. So the outhouse remained in use. Washing ourselves was interesting as my sisters and I would heat a big pot on the stove and used that heated water to wash ourselves and our hair. This was all done in the kitchen with a curtain over the doorway. It was as I stated, an interesting way of life. But I loved going there when I can afford the travel expenses.
Thank u so much for educating people about us Navajo. This makes me home sick. We moved to Clermont Florida a few years ago. Such a big change! But while living here people will automatically start talking to us in Spanish everywhere we go. We respond with sorry I am Navajo and don’t understand Spanish. 99% of them will ask us what is Navajo? It gets very frustrating, sad and annoying that they have no idea we exist!!!!!!!!!!!!! They have no idea how we live back home. Appreciate what u have America cause it’s a luxury for us.
A lot of mismanagement of funds have been going on for years and I'm sure this is just one more of many resources that have been neglected because of the poor management choices...glad someone is bringing and keeping these horrible inhumane issues to light..and then actually putting feet to the ground...so many problems just get talked about but never get resolved.
Long ago those who have pass. Have been saying water is precious. But ppl don’t listen. And want to mistreat water. We’ve all been warned. They’ll will be a fight over water among the people.
We. As First Nations tribes, must start voting in own.people into Congress n the Senate, to speak on our behalfs, cause as water gets scarse,, the government will take of this river, The Colorado River, my late great uncle Chairman, Mr Ernest House Sr, have fought for our rights to this water , it tooks years of legel battles, since the early 30's, We won our rights as The Ute Nation, plus our sister tribe, So.Ute, as the original people of the State of Colorado , So please native tribes. Let's start putting our native people in high offices, to be a Voice for all Native tribes and it's People, Cause We Are Still Hee, , , JonPaul DeLucci ,Ute tribe
The US signed the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on 5 Oct 1977. They have not ratified it yet. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation are internationally recognized human rights, derived from the right to an adequate standard of living under Article 11(1) of this Covenant . Yet groups such as the Navajo Nation not only don't have such access to safe water, they don't even have reliable access to any water. On 28 July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historical resolution recognizing “the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights” (A/RES/64/292). Yet the Supreme Court denies this right to the Navajo Nation? Where are the values in the US? 😭
"Americans" I delivery marijuana to in northern California do not need 82 gallons of water per day, period. Especially when the water protectors of this land have no water
They do have a right to it. The issue is the infrastructure to access it. They stole the land with promises to give Natives all that they need to flourish in exchange. All lies and Natives continue to suffer.
Damn still fighting for human survival! Absolutely ridiculous and shameful for the U.S. government to continue to treat people in the manner...atrocious!
How has this ever been any different? This land is naturally arid and water is scarce. This is their land, their “nation,” they choose to live there. And it appears that, by community action, they are achieving it. No good can come from intrusion by the Federal government. There is always a price for “help.”
"they choose to live there", living somewhere isn't always a choice, some people don't have the economic ability to move, and to others, the place they live isn't just a place to keep their stuff, it's a home, not just for them, but for the people the generation before them, and so on.
@@noellep4779 That’s all part of it; they choose to live there because it is their land, literally the ground the generations of Diné have lived and died on. Most of us have no such relationship to a physical piece of earth. My ancestors in Europe undoubtedly did, but I have lived in a number of places in my life, and cannot claim any one of them is at the root of my family, clan or culture.
@rico567 your doing it again. Stop. Learn navajo history 1st before you tell navajos their history. Learn how the reservation came to be, you always jump to conclusions, relax, breathe and study.
Amen Yashua bless them and help keep keep them in fresh clean water there is a deep underground spring in the middle of Navajo nation it lies under the great river it is just sleeping because man has destroyed it by dams to feed Los Vages one day they will get smart and destroy man interference of our great Fathers will
Casino money is a myth. There are less than ten nations making profits from casinos (Foxwood is the largest) for the most part, casinos serve to employ a few people on the reservation.
Forces assimilation most can't live there but don't want to leave because it would destroy the tribe and there culture.its the last thing they have left even if it was a death camp in the beginning
They own all the casinos...you would think they would invest in infrastructure. It's the tribe responsibility bc they are sovereign and aren't subject reg govt regulation like everyone else so.......yeah
It's funny you say that. We didn't always have the casino, and the casino money isn't paid out the people. The navajo nation government decides where the money goes. Just like the US government, they decide things for the people. It is our concern and voices that are continued to be unheard. But those family who need water, get it the way that elderly man was getting his water. We r hoping that coverage like this will move our government infrastructure to put more money into the water supply.
I’m Hopi and I hope they can find ways to better their communities, but this is an issue of their own creating. The Navajo are not ancient people - they are nomads who are relatively new the Southwest. They wanted to encroach on these lands while having no infrastructure or recourse to survive on their own with the environment.
This has nothing to do with Navajos outgrowing your people’s, the population in desert areas are just high in general these days. Especially California and Las Vegas.
Jesus is Living Water "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (Jn 4:13-14)
The federal government is corrupt. Over 400 treaties were made and every one of them was broken. The government stole Native land with the promise of receiving food, water, healthcare, and education forever. Then, they marched thousands to concentration camps they called reservations. For decades it was illegal to leave the reservation, food was cut and children starved to death. See where mass corruption really is before pointing fingers. I do not live on the Navajo Reservation so, I cannot speak to the corruption that may or may not exist. That is for someone who lives there to address.
The contractors hired to build bathroom additions are corrupt, too, they get paid and disappear. The chapter house level employees only assist family and friends with funding, and no one else. After hundreds of thousands get embezzled, they leave office with no consequence, only to return a few years later to do it again. Good ol boys club from bottom to top.
So glad they covered this story. I am really moved that this can be happening here. I pray they win this court case. All should have access to water.
So am I. 🙏🏾 My latest video is actually about my visits to the Navajo Nation. ❤ them.
God bless our Navajo brothers and sisters.
Yes, indeed. 😇 My latest video entitled “Bringing New Orleans to the Navajo Nation” has pictures from my visits to our Navajo brothers and sisters.
This makes me cry...I'm so glad this family is able to have clean water!! God Bless you!!
This makes zero sense. The government should have never allowed this to happen.
They once had an annihilation policy for their Indian problem.
Does it not make dam sense.
There are organizations here in America that ask for money to build water wells overseas, but I have never heard them say anything at all about the fact the indigineous people whose lands they live on have no fresh drinking water.
Hypocrisy is the term!
WOW yeah I heard since in thee beginning of time our "founding fathers haven't gave a crap about us since the beginning of time'' I'm from Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians sorry to hear bout this matter wow. Hopefully some #Oshkiimaajitahdah helps things get better (that's new beginnings in Ojibwemowin) much love fam
South Dakota Tribes too, no running water on some of those reservations!!!!! It makes me ache we don't have ALL OUR people taken care of... I don't give two rats ass about no tready, the Natives deserve more help with basic municipalities at minimal. No American should be living in a house that you can't pay for water to be turned on...unless you choose not to. Pine Ridge Indian reservation is in desperate need!!!! PLEASE LET'S HELP MORE!!!!!!!!
@@gretchenk.2516 that’s fked
So glad that people are helping the Navajo residents in need of precious and sacred water. Back in the 1990's I used to visit my adopted family on the Utah portion of the Rez. And I can remember my sisters and brothers having to drive from Aneth to Bluff, Utah to get water from a well at a Mission. They would have put as many 50 gallon plastic barrels in a pickup truck and fill those. It usually lasted about a week before they had to get more. And because there was no water they had an outhouse, and it was miserable to walk to in winter, let me tell you. But by the early 2000's the Navajo nation brought in a water line and built them a bathroom and installed plumbing as well as a septic pond. But they messed up the sewage pond and didn't place it low enough so they couldn't shower as the water would back up into the tub. Heaven forbid if you used the toilet. When you flushed it too would back up into the tub. So the outhouse remained in use.
Washing ourselves was interesting as my sisters and I would heat a big pot on the stove and used that heated water to wash ourselves and our hair. This was all done in the kitchen with a curtain over the doorway. It was as I stated, an interesting way of life. But I loved going there when I can afford the travel expenses.
We lived like this in Laven arizona
Never ever will I understand how this issue has not been rectified!A'ho
From Wind River reservation- our prayers are with the Diné ♥️
prayers to you aswell
Because WE are forgotten.. But yet THEY help people all over the world
Alot of them supported trump and trump never helped.
@MrStaybrown Alot of other presidents also didn't do anything either though
And some people by my neighborhood would not believe me that there is still some places so poor and without water in the United States.
It angers me we in 2023 no running water.
The native Americans get gypped in every way possible !!
Thank u so much for educating people about us Navajo. This makes me home sick. We moved to Clermont Florida a few years ago. Such a big change! But while living here people will automatically start talking to us in Spanish everywhere we go. We respond with sorry I am Navajo and don’t understand Spanish. 99% of them will ask us what is Navajo? It gets very frustrating, sad and annoying that they have no idea we exist!!!!!!!!!!!!! They have no idea how we live back home. Appreciate what u have America cause it’s a luxury for us.
A lot of mismanagement of funds have been going on for years and I'm sure this is just one more of many resources that have been neglected because of the poor management choices...glad someone is bringing and keeping these horrible inhumane issues to light..and then actually putting feet to the ground...so many problems just get talked about but never get resolved.
Mismanagement of foreign currency makes perfect sense!
So will the water crisis be eased if Denver stops sucking water over the Continental Divide from the Upper Colorado Basin?
We would have lost World War Two without the Navajo yet this is how they are treated
Navajo Tribe deserves their water rights💧
Long ago those who have pass. Have been saying water is precious. But ppl don’t listen. And want to mistreat water. We’ve all been warned. They’ll will be a fight over water among the people.
From Las Cruces NM.....the struggle is real.
💧Water Is Life💧HumaN💧
Is it illegal to rainwater there
We. As First Nations tribes, must start voting in own.people into Congress n the Senate, to speak on our behalfs, cause as water gets scarse,, the government will take of this river, The Colorado River, my late great uncle Chairman, Mr Ernest House Sr, have fought for our rights to this water , it tooks years of legel battles, since the early 30's,
We won our rights as The Ute Nation, plus our sister tribe, So.Ute, as the original people of the State of Colorado ,
So please native tribes. Let's start putting our native people in high offices, to be a Voice for all Native tribes and it's People,
Cause We Are Still Hee, , ,
JonPaul DeLucci ,Ute tribe
I'm doing a project on the Navajo Nation and this is sad. The Supreme Court has ruled against them and so my question is, what now?
The US signed the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on 5 Oct 1977. They have not ratified it yet. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation are internationally recognized human rights, derived from the right to an adequate standard of living under Article 11(1) of this Covenant . Yet groups such as the Navajo Nation not only don't have such access to safe water, they don't even have reliable access to any water.
On 28 July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historical resolution recognizing “the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights” (A/RES/64/292).
Yet the Supreme Court denies this right to the Navajo Nation?
Where are the values in the US? 😭
And we wouldn’t have won World War Two without the Navajo
The Navajo’s along the base of the Grand Canyon too.
"Americans" I delivery marijuana to in northern California do not need 82 gallons of water per day, period. Especially when the water protectors of this land have no water
What is the chief doing? Built some God damn water pipes.
The navajo nation has a river running right through it and they have no rights to it..all far off major cities do though.
They do have a right to it. The issue is the infrastructure to access it. They stole the land with promises to give Natives all that they need to flourish in exchange. All lies and Natives continue to suffer.
Supreme Court told the navajo that they have no rights to the water from the river.
Get them some fn water for damn sake. Honestly. All this money our government takes from every single worker. Unbelievable.
I deemed it imperative for the US government to share the comfort and luxury they have acquired from the land of the natives of that country.
WATER IS SACRED!
IT'S ABOUT TIME, AND THANK YOU FOR CARING ENOUGH TO CALL ATTENTION FOR HELPING THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ANCESTORS HOMELAND IS AMERICA!
The tribe them self this should be done 25 years ago nothing change since then
Water is dying out from pollution.
It's about time❤
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So F'n sad!!! This should not be in 2023. Get water to the NN!!!! Let it FLOW.... for everyone!!!
Save the underground water tables on the whole indian reservation for the future generations. We never ever want to run out of drinking water.
When big city waste water mix with drinking,people start crying for help,we don't complain we haul our waters
U can't collect rainwater there
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Damn still fighting for human survival! Absolutely ridiculous and shameful for the U.S. government to continue to treat people in the manner...atrocious!
Terrible
How has this ever been any different? This land is naturally arid and water is scarce. This is their land, their “nation,” they choose to live there. And it appears that, by community action, they are achieving it. No good can come from intrusion by the Federal government. There is always a price for “help.”
"they choose to live there", living somewhere isn't always a choice, some people don't have the economic ability to move, and to others, the place they live isn't just a place to keep their stuff, it's a home, not just for them, but for the people the generation before them, and so on.
@@noellep4779 That’s all part of it; they choose to live there because it is their land, literally the ground the generations of Diné have lived and died on. Most of us have no such relationship to a physical piece of earth. My ancestors in Europe undoubtedly did, but I have lived in a number of places in my life, and cannot claim any one of them is at the root of my family, clan or culture.
I don’t think our people had much choice. It was either live there or have the white invaders leave us all with nothing.
@@mencken8 Sounds like you need to go back to Europe.
@rico567 your doing it again.
Stop.
Learn navajo history 1st before you tell navajos their history. Learn how the reservation came to be, you always jump to conclusions, relax, breathe and study.
Yup most with no running water... but i bet if the story was for oil the government would gladly make it easily accessible
Amen Yashua bless them and help keep keep them in fresh clean water there is a deep underground spring in the middle of Navajo nation it lies under the great river it is just sleeping because man has destroyed it by dams to feed Los Vages one day they will get smart and destroy man interference of our great Fathers will
Too many damn grandkids! Tell your children to raise their own brats!
U.S. Government needs to care for their own FIRST, not foreign nations that bad mouth us!
Charity begins at home so to speak.
❤
All that casino money and can’t even support there own people. Yet they can do tribal meeting in Vegas and Hawaii.
Casino money only works for small tribes...
Casino money is a myth. There are less than ten nations making profits from casinos (Foxwood is the largest) for the most part, casinos serve to employ a few people on the reservation.
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They're self-governed and riddled with corruption. Get those kids out of there to give them a chance.
Forces assimilation most can't live there but don't want to leave because it would destroy the tribe and there culture.its the last thing they have left even if it was a death camp in the beginning
They own all the casinos...you would think they would invest in infrastructure. It's the tribe responsibility bc they are sovereign and aren't subject reg govt regulation like everyone else so.......yeah
They own all casinos 🙄
You sound so ignorant and undereducated…..
It's funny you say that. We didn't always have the casino, and the casino money isn't paid out the people. The navajo nation government decides where the money goes. Just like the US government, they decide things for the people. It is our concern and voices that are continued to be unheard. But those family who need water, get it the way that elderly man was getting his water. We r hoping that coverage like this will move our government infrastructure to put more money into the water supply.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is usually full of corrupt people and they steal from their own people. So there’s that…
Casinos it's self is not even fully paid for. Were not billionaires like Trump or Bill Gates.
@@Cwgrlup B.I.A. stands for Bureau of Indian Affairs, but native Americans said it stands for "Bossing Indians around."
I’m Hopi and I hope they can find ways to better their communities, but this is an issue of their own creating. The Navajo are not ancient people - they are nomads who are relatively new the Southwest. They wanted to encroach on these lands while having no infrastructure or recourse to survive on their own with the environment.
Indians need to go to work and not live in the past. Not ask for hand outs from the goverment.
They are still their citizens and must be given autonomy because of their culture & creeds.
@@Hey_its_Kodashut up
This has nothing to do with Navajos outgrowing your people’s, the population in desert areas are just high in general these days. Especially California and Las Vegas.
Jesus is Living Water
"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (Jn 4:13-14)
My Home Tuba City Az
???? Everyone here hauls there own water just like this too...no big deal
The Nations True Citizens
Tribe is corrupt
The federal government is corrupt. Over 400 treaties were made and every one of them was broken. The government stole Native land with the promise of receiving food, water, healthcare, and education forever. Then, they marched thousands to concentration camps they called reservations. For decades it was illegal to leave the reservation, food was cut and children starved to death. See where mass corruption really is before pointing fingers. I do not live on the Navajo Reservation so, I cannot speak to the corruption that may or may not exist. That is for someone who lives there to address.
The contractors hired to build bathroom additions are corrupt, too, they get paid and disappear. The chapter house level employees only assist family and friends with funding, and no one else. After hundreds of thousands get embezzled, they leave office with no consequence, only to return a few years later to do it again. Good ol boys club from bottom to top.