The Navajo Nation, along with a committee of sheep and cattle ranchers in the Western Navajo Agency, issued formal letters opposing the latest proposal by a Phoenix developer to construct a series of hydroelectric dams along the Little Colorado River.
"Here we go again," said Rita Bilagody, spokesperson for a Navajo Nation grassroots organization Save the Confluence. She said she was outraged that the people who call the northwestern corner of the Navajo Nation home have to fight yet again to preserve their lands, waters and sacred places.