The Chiricahua Apache Nation website got a facelift late last month, after a major leadership shake-up that the new interim tribal council of the group, which now calls itself the Chiricahua Apache Tribe, hopes will usher in a new era of transparency and legitimacy. “The Chiricahua Apache Elders Council would like to inform you that our name has changed,” a message on the website states. “The name ‘The Chiricahua Apache …
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After hot debate, county backs anti-diversion bill Written by Geoffrey Plant on March 15, 2021
Copious time was again spent on the Gila River diversion group’s fate at last week’s regular meeting of the Grant County Commission.
Discussion at the Thursday meeting was dominated by arguments for and against a nonbinding resolution in support of legislation that seeks to place the state Water Trust Board into the role currently played by the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project, advising the state on how $80 million in water project funding
should be spent throughout Grant, Catron, Hidalgo and Luna counties.