The first six transports of uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain Mine in northern Arizona were delivered to Utah last week.
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The Navajo Nation government recently came to an agreement with mining company Energy Fuels on the transport of uranium from a mine south of the Grand Canyon.
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A temporary exhibit featuring a little-known 1940s American art movement is nearing the end of its run at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. The show highlights the interconnection of Native and non-Native artists as they separately looked to redefine American and Native art.
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After the recent federal funding freeze, a coalition of tribal organizations is calling for confirmation that recent executive orders won’t harm programs and services their communities rely on.
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Former North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum is now officially Interior Secretary, with help from Arizona’s U.S. senators and a couple of its tribes.
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A Navajo Nation official said the agreement with the company, which began the transports over objections by the tribe and local governments last year, was in in the tribe's "best interest" instead of a legal battle.
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Colorado-based Energy Fuels will enhance some of its safety standards for shipping uranium from its mine near Grand Canyon National Park through the Navajo Nation, to its processing plant in southern Utah. It will also aid the tribe in cleanup of 10,000 tons of leftover material from mines abandoned during the Cold War.
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From hand-tossing to frying round balls of dough, several dozen people practiced making the Indigenous culinary staple during a Saturday cooking class hosted by the Frybread Lounge.
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An executive order from the Trump administration has halted more than $27 million worth of funding for some restoration projects on tribal lands in Arizona.
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This month, Medicaid and CHIP have expanded coverage of traditional healing practices, including sweat lodges and musical therapy, for tribal members across four Western states, including Arizona. But the state is responsible for the upfront costs of the two-year pilot program, and still has to figure out how to pay for it.
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House Bill 2281 would establish an alert system used in instances when an Indigenous person has gone missing amid unexplained or suspicious circumstances.
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As one of his final presidential acts on Monday, Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in a 1975 shootout in South Dakota.
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This investment from the Powering Affordable Clean Energy Program is supposed to generate more than 30 megawatts of renewable energy for the not-for-profit utility’s roughly 40,000 tribal customers in rural Arizona and New Mexico.