Utah experts weighed in on how Indigenous communities are pushing back against water rights issues and what the broader community can do to support them.
"In terms of the effects of environmental issues, every environmental issue in this country is happening on Indigenous land," said Maria Archibald, the lands and water programs coordinator for the Sierra Club Utah Chapter. "If there are effects on people at all, those effects are often tenfold on Indigenous communities and it's often these communities that are really rising to the frontlines.
He remembers boiling water to do chores one day as a child and spilling the pot of water on his foot, which eventually had boils from the burn. To this day, he said that experience "remains something significant" and informs how he portrays Indigenous experiences through storytelling. This means that the first individuals to claim water rights are the first to receive them and that water rights can be forfeited if not used for a seven-year period. Tribes' water rights usually date back to when a reservation was established, though those rights are not always honored and many tribal communities lack the infrastructure to use their water.
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