Water-Rich Gila River Tribe Near Phoenix Flexes Its Political Muscles in a Drying West SACATON, Arizona (AP) — Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table ...

The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) and the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT), whose reservations are both located in Arizona, are the exceptions to that rule. Both tribes settled with the U ...