Gabriel Pietrorazio
Tribal Natural Resources Reporter | [email protected]Gabriel 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 State Historic Preservation Office hosted a first-of-its-kind daylong listening session in Phoenix on Wednesday. A dozen tribes shared their thoughts and concerns about cultural landscapes across the Grand Canyon State that they wish to protect. -
The Interior Department released hundreds of documents Monday from a two-week review in February. The records contain action plans for national monuments and mineral withdrawals across the U.S. to accelerate President Trump’s American energy agenda. -
Two days after a Phoenix hearing to consider the request, an Arizona federal judge granted a temporary injunction Friday to delay the land transfer of Oak Flat between the U.S. Forest Service and multinational mining company Resolution Copper. -
After California, Washington, Colorado and New Mexico, Arizona would become the fifth in the nation to implement an Indigenous alert system at the state level, if signed into law. -
Resolution Copper could get Oak Flat as early as June 16, but the Becket Fund remains hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on Apache Stronghold’s petition in July before its session ends. Until then, the Arizona district judge is supposed to make an injunction decision by no later than Wednesday, May 14. -
Members of the nonprofit Apache Stronghold began running over the weekend from Oak Flat to the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse in Phoenix ahead of a Wednesday hearing — where a judge will consider delaying a land swap — and a surprise guest met with the group at a stop in the Valley. -
President Donald Trump recently took to Truth Social, sharing his desire to bring Columbus Day “back from the ashes.” But the federal holiday that began in 1934 never actually went away. -
New Mexico’s governor signed a bill last month that will develop a Turquoise Alert – aiming to help locate Indigenous peoples who’ve gone missing. This new measure marks the fourth state in the nation to do so – but now it’s also helping shape a law the Arizona Legislature has been trying to pass this session. -
Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis decided to extend the February curfew a second time after first doing so in March. It was supposed to end on May 1, but now the curfew will remain until June 30. -
Arizona federal judge will consider Apache Stronghold’s petition to delay pending Oak Flat land swapWhile the Trump administration is looking to bolster domestic mineral production by prioritizing approval for the controversial Resolution Copper project about 60 miles east of the Valley, opponents are trying to delay that process.
