Carletta Tilousi, a member of the Havasupai Tribe, was born and raised in a village at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The Havasupai have lived there since time immemorial.
When she was just 14, Tilousi remembers traveling for a full day to Red Butte, a sacred mountain at the center of Havasupai creation stories located near the Grand Canyon, to protest uranium mining with her tribe’s leaders and elders in the 1980s.
“Our elders said, ‘we’re not willing to sit back and wait until it happens. We have to protect this water and take the lead to protect not only the waters, but our sacred mountains and burial sites and our trails,’” Tilousi told The Salt Lake Tribune...