Gabriel Pietrorazio
Tribal Natural Resources ReporterGabriel Pietrorazio is a correspondent who reports on tribal natural resources for KJZZ. He began covering Haudenosaunee communities throughout New York and Canada while attending Hobart College in the Finger Lakes.
After earning bachelor’s degrees in media and society and political science in 2020, Pietrorazio graduated the following year with a master’s degree from Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Since then, he has prioritized uplifting Indigenous voices by bringing greater visibility and attention to their stories as a multimedia journalist. He frequently contributes to Civil Eats, a national newsroom focused on food systems, and the Syracuse-based Central Current, among other digital nonprofit platforms.
His in-depth Indigenous affairs reporting, primarily centered around agricultural issues, has received numerous local and national recognitions, including awards from the North American Agricultural Journalists, Native American Journalists Association and Syracuse Press Club.
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House Bill 2281 would establish an alert system used in instances when an Indigenous person has gone missing amid unexplained or suspicious circumstances. -
As one of his final presidential acts on Monday, Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in a 1975 shootout in South Dakota. -
This investment from the Powering Affordable Clean Energy Program is supposed to generate more than 30 megawatts of renewable energy for the not-for-profit utility’s roughly 40,000 tribal customers in rural Arizona and New Mexico. -
Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum testified Thursday before members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, including U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego. He wanted to know how President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee would help tribes in Arizona if confirmed as the 55th secretary of the Interior. -
This gathering, organized by the Governor’s Office on Tribal Relations, among the state’s 22 federally recognized tribes has been a tradition since 1995. Since then, the Grand Canyon State and its tribal neighbors have worked to strengthen their ties. -
President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team named outgoing North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the agency that manages the nation’s natural and cultural resources. He’s set to replace Deb Haaland, the first Native American Interior Department secretary. -
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland made history as the nation’s first Indigenous Cabinet member, leading an agency that manages the country’s natural resources. Four years later, some observers have reflected on how her tenure will be remembered. -
The 25-year-old female golden eagle named Dragon will soon depart for the Phoenix Zoo and become a non-breeding companion for a male golden eagle, whose longtime mate died in 2022. -
The 624,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument is located just south of Joshua Tree National Park, where the Mojave and Colorado deserts meet. The Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe and Colorado River Indian Tribes maintain ancestral ties to the area. -
Petroglyphs are synonymous with the Southwest, and can be found all around Arizona. However, there’s a hidden gem near the border of Glendale and Phoenix that’s celebrating a milestone this month while paying homage to ancestral Indigenous peoples who once inhabited the Valley of the Sun.
