EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Water Walkup that moved Friday, March 17, under a WASHINGTON dateline are asked to run the following correction. The errors occurred in the 12th and 13th grafs of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

WASHINGTON – A March 17 story about a Navajo water rights case before the Supreme Court gave an incorrect title for Michael Lerma and misheard part of his quote that was used in the story. Lerma, who is the executive director of the Diné Policy Institute at Diné College, referred to tribes’ relationship to the federal government as that of “a quote-unquote ‘ward.'”