In addition to the seven states along the Colorado River, Native American tribes have been involved in the negotiations over the future of the water source for 40 million people.

In June, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, flew to New Mexico to celebrate a 20-year ban on oil drilling in Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

WASHINGTON — The first time Albert Jenks, the founder of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Anthropology, took students to New Mexico to excavate Native American remains and funerary ...