A new interactive website features the voices and stories of Navajo, Hopi, Apache, Zuni and other Indigenous people talking about the Little Colorado River. It’s sacred to local tribes, spiritually connected to the Grand Canyon and tied to prayer and ceremony. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with Sarana Riggs of the Grand Canyon Trust about the project, called “Lifeways of the Little Colorado River.”
So this collection of videos and interviews and photographs that you’ve put together, tell me what inspired that idea of putting all those stories together in this project?
I think the project just stemmed from what lies beyond the Grand Canyon, and what are the different tributaries that lead into the canyon, and LCR seemed like it was the most impacted…