Government Failing In Its Duty To Navajo Nation, Tribe Tells Supreme Court

Mealey's (February 3, 2023, 11:57 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States is breaking the promise it made to the Navajo Nation more than 150 years ago for “a permanent homeland in their ancestral territory, with sufficient water to fulfill the Reservation’s purposes,” constituting a breach of the government’s trust obligations to the tribe, the Nation tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief on the merits....