Indigenous tribes were pushed away from the Colorado River. A new generation is fighting to save it.

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Heading out for a day’s fishing from Lees Ferry, south of Page and the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, Feb. 21, 2023.



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Jicarilla Apache Water Administrator Daryl Vigil, who is also the former Chairman of the Colorado River Basin Ten Tribes Partnership, at Lower Mundo Lake, a recreational fishing area on the Jicarilla Apache Nation, near Dulce, N.M.

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Dulce, New Mexico, is part of the Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation, not far from the Colorado border. March 5, 2023.

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Brad Udall, a climate scientist who has spent the last 10 years trying to warn water managers about the crisis on the Colorado River that’s now upon us. Photographed at his Boulder, Colorado, home on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023.

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The chapter “Flooding the Sistine Chapel,” in Morris K. Udall’s book “Too Funny to be President,” on he kitchen table of Brad Udall, a climate scientist with Colorado State University who has spent the last 10 years trying to warn water managers about the crisis on the Colorado River that’s now upon us. Photographed at his Boulder, Colorado, home on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023.

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Colorado River Indian Tribes Farm Manager Joshua Moore shores up a berm next to a field flooded with irrigation water ahead of spring cotton planting, south of Parker, Arizona, February, 2023.