The Fight To Preserve Wyoming's Indian Reservations | Wind River

In a modern day turn of Cowboys and Indians, White ranchers on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming are fighting to protect their long-held water rights for irrigated agriculture. However, the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes are fighting to save the drained Wind River and a part of their own heritage.
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As the West continues to change, environmentalists and Indian activists alike use the courts in an attempt to curtail some of the traditional, but harmful, practices of white ranchers and farmers.
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[@jnaranjo7891]

Seems to me the treaty should be honored first!

[@Alwaysherethere]

Yup I agree

[@humansustainability]

agree

[@desertmaverick7567]

With the 20 year drought that is going on looks like the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes have Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah to deal with for water rights as well.

[@user-lf3we7jk7x]

water flows without regard as to who tries ato claim it and say they have the right to decide who get more or who gets more use than others. water was free until the white man saw the opportunity to control others like native american tribes, small towns and cities, small businesses ect...ect... the greed and control over water needs to quit. farmers, ranchers should not need to reduce their use of water.. those are necessary to our existence. big businesses large cities are the ones that need to reduce water usage. everything needs water. without it everything dies. this might be one of many continued ways of trying to eradicate native americans. forced onto reservations that were considered useless/ not with anything. took their lands and now taking their water. news flash no one owns the water it's for all sure it needs to be regulated but it needs to be done fairly _ but we know that never is applied.

[@MediocreOriginals]

Everyone has and every place has its good and bad issues on rez or off rez, but spare the me the bleeding heart crap, the us gov that has made a special interest group out of native Americans is going to continue to pour money into the rez

[@user-yo5el7nz2v]

Hand outs, you took the land,,what about welfare ranching