Residents suffer while tribes debate water issues

By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau

WINDOW ROCK — Members of the Navajo-Hopi Land Commission and the Hopi Tribe will meet next week to discuss water issues brought up by Navajos residing on Hopi Partitioned Land who refused to leave their homes after Congress partitioned the disputed lands in 1974 and forced the relocation of Navajo and Hopi families.

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