Can the Navajo Nation Build a Recreation Economy on the San Juan River?

What If We Treated the San Juan River as More Than a Boundary Line and Saw It as a Beginning?

In the past few years, I’ve found myself pulled more and more toward rivers. At first, it was curiosity about their movement, their wildness, and the stories they tell. Rivers connect distant places in a way that few other things can, carving through geologic time and human history alike. I’ve come to think of them as running archives. They’re also one …