The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against the Navajo Nation's request to require the federal government to take steps to supply water to its reservation.
The Navajo Nation, which has more than 300,000 members and a reservation roughly the size of West Virginia, sued the Department of Interior and other federal officials to try to enforce an 1868 peace treaty.
The 1868 treaty gave the Navajo Nation land and mineral rights in exchange for ending war against one another after the U.S. won territory from Mexico. “We conclude that the treaty does not require the United States to take those affirmative steps. And it is not the Judiciary’s role to rewrite and update this 155-year-old treaty. Rather, Congress and the President may enact — and often have enacted — laws to assist the citizens of the western United States, including the Navajos, with their water needs,” Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote for the majority.
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