Members of an Arizona tribe are trying to persuade a federal judge to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near lands they have used for religious and cultural ceremonies for centuries.
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Violet Duncan’s latest book is a young adult novel about a Native woman reckoning with the legacy of the Residential Schools program, which separated generations of Indigenous children from their families.
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The Apache trout was removed from the federal endangered species Wednesday. It's the first trout and sportsfish to be taken off the list in U.S. history and, according to some, it’s a symbol of hope.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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More than a hundred people gathered Saturday at Red Butte south of the Grand Canyon to protest the mining and hauling of uranium ore. It’s the latest in a string of Indigenous-led protests calling for the closure of the Pinyon Plain mine.
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The Show's Sam Dingman visits the "The Place Where Clouds Are Formed" exhibit and asks the co-curators about the stories behind the effort to illustrate a heavily guarded barrier between two regions of the ancestral O’odham homelands.
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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.
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Sheilah Nicholas has been working to preserve Indigenous languages for her entire career. But her exposure to it started long before her career started.