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Donald W. Wanatee Sr. regularly spent as many as 100 hours a week away from the Meskwaki Indian Settlement as he tirelessly advocated for Native American people and issues around the country, often sparing his last dollars to get from place to place.
When he was home, he took his kids on hikes through the Meskwaki Nation s heavily wooded settlement in Tama County, Iowa. He taught them how to grow crops and, being a hobby cartographer, how to navigate forests, said Donnielle J. Wanatee, one of his eight children. As a social worker, he understood kids needs and instilled in each of his own children a lifelong sense of individuality, she said.
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9th Circ. Revives Decades-Old Navajo Nation River Policy Suit
Law360 (April 28, 2021, 7:10 PM EDT) The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday reversed an Arizona federal judge s dismissal of a Navajo Nation suit against the federal government, ruling that the tribe deserves to redo its complaint requesting reconsideration of how much Colorado River water states could receive.
The Navajo Nation in 2003 sued multiple federal agencies the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs claiming they violated the National Environmental Policy Act and trust duties by not considering the tribe s water rights to the Colorado RIver.