Betrayal!!

After 1962, the Secretary of Interior was no longer in a position to actively pursue protecting Rainbow Bridge; however, environmental groups were not ready to abandon the fight. Brower and Packard lobbied everyone they could think of to compel federal officials to honor the protective terms of the CRSP. Brower believed that Congress and the Secretary of the Interior would never skate past the legal imperative of protection. To Brower, not protecting Rainbow Bridge was the same thing as wantonly breaking the law. Until 1960, Secretary Seaton was sending Brower all the right messages: while Congress was defunding protective measures, the Department of the Interior announced it would lobby Congress for funds at Rainbow Bridge. In early 1960, Seaton penned a personal note to Brower at the bottom of a press release that said, "let me assure you that it is my firm policy, as well as that of all personnel of my department, that any actions or activities of this Department will be in conformance with existing law. By 1971, the water had reached the monument. A court case filed under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act was lost and failed to protect the site.

• Premeditated- pursuing course of action to put the Rainbow Bridge in harms way- uses lies and deception to conceal their own culpability
• Structural- Gov't viewing problem threw a narrow lens- only looking at their benefits, not the harm they will be causing the community and environment, by trying to alleviate the problem of water appropriation, they infringe on the rights of the Native Americans and put the Colorado Ecosystem in harms way- feedback loop creating everlasting resentment between the Indians and the government- gov't thinks money will make up for the land they are taking