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Last week, the Bureau of Reclamation inked three historic water conservation agreements in Santa Fe with the Gila River Indian Community, which thinks it can step up to help take some strain off Lake Mead and stabilize the Colorado River Basin. Less than a week later, they’re already breaking ground on two of these projects.
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Negotiations are continuing between leaders of the Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels Resources, the company that has restarted uranium mining operations near the Grand Canyon. But the Navajo Nation is taking steps to strengthen their position on their own. -
The Interior Department announced Thursday that it has allocated another $71 million to help electrify 13 communities across Indian Country, and two Arizona tribal utility companies are closer to bridging the power gap. -
Some of the most famous works of land art are here in the Southwest. But, what does it mean to imprint the earth and call it art when indigenous people have been doing that for centuries? -
The Navajo Nation Zoo’s 4,000-square-foot Eagle Aviary and Education Center, touted as the only tribally owned and operated zoo nationwide, helps provide legally sourced eagle feathers required for tribal ceremonies. -
Demonstrators gathering on Capitol Hill this week are calling on Congress to reauthorize compensation programs for victims of radiation exposure – especially in Indigenous communities that have been disproportionately affected. -
Animals are hit on the road, seized after illegal hunting or euthanized by the state. The department then works with tribes who use them for ceremonial purposes, instead of disposing of the carcasses. -
The Bureau of Land Management and Peregrine Fund are set to release four captive-bred California condors into the wild from the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument this Saturday. -
Last month, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sent a letter to the U.S. Forest Service, asking it to conduct a new environmental impact study, or EIS, for a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon. But now Gov. Katie Hobbs is urging the same. -
Wildlife conservation efforts, in part, criminalized Indigenous customs, but also led to a thriving global black market for wildlife parts. To counteract that illicit industry, a Phoenix nonprofit has been providing an alternative, legal source of feathers for tribal members in Arizona and nationwide. -
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. -
The House, controlled by Republicans, has yet to vote on the measure. Speaker Mike Johnson has not said whether or when he would put the RECA reauthorization to a vote. Aides ignored requests Monday to discuss the bill. -
Grand Canyon National Park has announced that 100 buffalo from the North Rim have been captured and relocated to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, with the help of an inter-tribal group.
