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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The nonprofit Apache Stronghold has submitted its writ certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to overturn a lower court’s ruling over Oak Flat earlier Wednesday. -
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland came to Bass Pro Shops in Mesa to delist the Apache trout as a federally protected species on Wednesday. This announcement marks the culmination of a five-decade struggle for the White Mountain Apache Tribe that treasures the Southwest fish. -
This week, the Navajo Nation Council amended a 2012 tribal law that banned the transport of radioactive materials through its reservation in response to last month’s unannounced trucking of uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain Mine through Navajoland by the mining company Energy Fuels. -
Recently, the Arizona Department of Water Resources announced that it’s coordinating visits — sometime this fall — with every federally-recognized tribe in the state that has settled its water rights. -
Darryl Montana is the head chef and a member of Tohono O’odham Nation. He returned to Arizona to lend his talents in helping launch this new eatery after leaving Owamni, an award-winning Indigenous restaurant in Minneapolis founded by Sean Sherman, an Oglala Lakota chef. -
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has been patiently waiting for a formal response from the Forest Service, which has told KJZZ News that it is still “reviewing the letter and its recommendations,” received earlier this month on Aug. 13. -
Scottsdale gallery owner Gilbert Ortega Jr. was initially charged with three misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct. Those charges were dropped, but there are still conflicting accounts about what exactly was said. -
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced $10 million in federal funding to help house more than 600 Native American veterans nationwide, and a senior HUD official came to Arizona to share the news on Monday. -
On Thursday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland delivered a message on the fourth and final day of the Democratic National Convention — one that may sway Indigenous voters in the swing state of Arizona. -
This week, the Bureau of Land Management began accepting nominations to form an advisory committee, focused on managing Arizona’s latest national monument. The 15 members are expected to represent a mix of stakeholders, including tribes.
