Indigenous Affairs

Last year, then-President Joe Biden came to the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona and apologized for the federal government’s 150-year campaign to assimilate Indigenous children through boarding schools.

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.

Following the brutal killing of Arizona teenager Emily Pike, lawmakers are reexamining state systems that help children. They are looking to pinpoint issues they can improve on to prevent another tragedy.

Customs and Border Protection is the nation's largest law enforcement agency. What happens when people are hurt or killed on their watch?

Arizona’s governor on Tuesday signed legislation to create an alert system for Native Americans who have gone missing in the state, a measure that won unanimous approval from lawmakers in the wake of the disappearance and death of a San Carlos Apache teen.

Tucked away in a narrow gorge below the rim of the Grand Canyon, sits the tiny town of Supai. It’s hard to get there, and as a result, getting mail in and out of Supai isn't easy.

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.