She's one of only two Indigenous female guides in Colorado.
“What we've done is partnered with the local tribes in the area that historically got removed,” Nelson explains. “What are the impacts of colonization today on different tribes? Tribes don't have access to water. How does that relate to other tribes? Looking at the Navajo Nation and looking at different areas of the U.S., expanding our knowledge.
Working along the headwaters of the Colorado River has had a big impact on Nelson. Last year she visited Blue Mesa Reservoir after much of its water had been released to help fill Lake Mead. “It was like a dust bowl,” Nelson recalls. “That’s the only way I can describe it. I was just standing there and getting whipped in the face with sand.”
She returned there this summer after a winter of heavy snowfall, and was amazed by how the reservoir has been replenished. “It was a little disheartening,” she says of last year's condition. “It was kind of like, I wonder what's going to happen. Now Blue Mesa is filled again, so the places we were fishing in, standing, are now filled up with water.”“It's a very special time that I get to connect to the watershed a little bit differently than people downriver,” she says.
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