For many Indigenous Americans, water is a sacred, necessary aspect of their culture. However, today, many tribes are having to wrestle with increasingly polluted waterways due to poor or misguided government regulations.
In this talk, Indigenous American legal scholar Kelsey Leonard explains why giving rivers and lakes the same legal rights as humans can be the first step in fighting water inequality
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