The 28th Annual Orme Dam Victory Days will celebrate the social and economic gains made by Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation in the 27 years since Interior Secretary James Lee Watt announced the decision to not build Orme Dam. The dam would have destroyed the culture and reservation of Yavapai People and its land. In the early 1970s, Arizona officials and the federal government sought to construct Orme Dam, which would give Phoenix more water but flood two-thirds of the 24,000 acre Fort McDowell Yavapai Indian Reservation.
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