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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Suman Naishadham and Terry Tang

Water-rich Gila River tribe near Phoenix flexes its political muscles in a drying West

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe's water.

His father, the late Rodney Lewis, was general counsel for the Gila River Indian Community and fought for the tribe's rights to water in the Southwest, eventually securing in 2004 the largest Native American water settlement in U.S. history.

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