Stories from the Colorado River Basin
Voices from Indigenous Land and Water Protection
____________________________________________ LOUISE BENNALLY is a grandmother, mother and clan mother from the Black Mesa community of Big Mountain in Northern Arizona… [Read Bio] ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ LEONA MORGAN is a Diné organizer and educator on nuclear issues since 2007 in the Four Corners and Colorado River Basin region… [Read Bio] ____________________________________________ Watch Water Story Videos brought to you by JMP Students _____________________________ The Waters Connect Us [COMING SOON]
All of our precious, finite water sources are connected, from flowing surface streams across the planet to the underground Aquifers below us, to the raindrops gathering above, all water is connected. The Waters Connect Us is multi-generational work to protect Sacred Water that was inspired by Debra White Plume (Oglala Lakota / Cheyenne), and a tight knit group of Indigenous and non-native people committed to environmental and human rights work. It honors the paths created by our relatives who dedicated their lives to protect our life + lands + waters for seven generations. We are all connected. _____________________________ River Stories [COMING SOON]
Leona Morgan challenges the legacy of nuclear control and the risks of uranium extraction, urging viewers to rethink the cost of so-called green energy in the Southwest. Louise Bennally explores how extractive industries threaten sacred water and lifeways in Diné territory in another short-form visual story. Reuben Cruz reflects on climate change, ecological disruption, and what it means to honor the Colorado River as a living system. _____________________________ Event Livestream [COMING SOON]
The edited recording of the Stories from the Colorado River Basin Panel Livestream. MSU Denver is located on the lands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota, and Ute, and other Indigenous peoples who maintain a continuous relationship with this land.
REUBEN CRUZ is a Piipaash/ Quechan/Mexican poet, educator and writer who was raised along the Gila and Salt Rivers in the Colorado River Basin of central Arizona..… [Read Bio]
WOMAN STANDS SHINING, Pat McCabe, is a mother and grandmother, artist, activist, international speaker, advocate for the sacredness of water all over the world, and conduit for voices of earth and spirit from Diné Nation… [Read Bio]
