One of the biggest all-Indigenous high school basketball competitions in North America wrapped up in the Valley on Saturday, with two rivalries heating up on center court in the tourney finals at PHX Arena.
The Native American Basketball Invitational — better known as NABI — began with 24 teams in 2003. Now it’s grown to a record 204 teams — including 85 from Arizona and six from Canada — with 3,129 athletes representing more than 160 federally recognized tribes from Phoenix to Anchorage, Alaska.
They played 508 games in all — ending with Arizona’s Rezbombers program making history by having both boys and girls teams vying to become national champions in the pair of bracket finals.
The boys squad dropped 78-64 to Phoenix’s Young Gunz, while the defending girls champs defeated Oklahoma’s Legendary Elite 58-47 in a rematch from last year — winning their third NABI title in four years.
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Clara Pratte grew up in a rural town on the eastern edge of the Navajo Nation without running water or electricity in her home. Now she’s asking voters to send her to Phoenix to regulate the utilities that serve millions of Arizonans across the state. -
The Arizona Department of Health Services has adopted a policy affirming tribal sovereignty over health data. -
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Gov. Katie Hobbs has issued a proclamation making July 15 Native Right to Vote Day in Arizona. -
These iconic cultural and natural sites are cherished by many — from hunters and anglers to tourists and tribal members. But they’re also see-sawing political battlegrounds, especially in Utah.
