The 624,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument is located just south of Joshua Tree National Park, where the Mojave and Colorado deserts meet. The Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe and Colorado River Indian Tribes maintain ancestral ties to the area.

Petroglyphs are synonymous with the Southwest, and can be found all around Arizona. However, there’s a hidden gem near the border of Glendale and Phoenix that’s celebrating a milestone this month while paying homage to ancestral Indigenous peoples who once inhabited the Valley of the Sun.

The House Natural Resources Committee said Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva's bill to create the Great Bend of the Gila National Monument is ineligible for floor votes since Republicans control the legislative agenda and no hearings have happened yet.

The Interior Department identified 973 children who died in the care of the U.S. government during the 150-year federal Indian boarding school era. A yearlong investigation found three times as many deaths and nearly double the burial sites than previously reported by the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, launched by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

Gov. Katie Hobbs announced on Friday that a longstanding tribal land dispute, nearly three decades in the making, is finally getting settled. It’ll transfer thousands of acres of state land into trust for the Hopi Tribe.

A bill introduced last year by Congressman Ruben Gallego to help tribes address this pressing issue finally got Senate approval this month and is now headed to President Joe Biden’s desk.

As Congress readies to recess for the holidays, the fate of two Indian water settlements remains uncertain. Although Gov. Katie Hobbs has already signed these agreements on behalf of Arizona last month, they still need to be ratified by federal lawmakers.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was born in Winslow, Arizona, and is a member of the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico. She elevated Indigenous issues from the Southwest by leaning into her roots as the nation’s first Native American Cabinet secretary.

Congressman Raúl Grijalva recently helped write a letter signed by nearly three dozen House and Senate Democrats, urging President Joe Biden to pardon an aging Native American rights activist, who was convicted of murdering FBI Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams in 1975.

Following last week’s annual conference of Colorado River water users, there’s still unfinished business on Capitol Hill. Three Arizona tribes are hoping Congress will ratify a historic water rights settlement before this session adjourns — otherwise negotiations will have to begin anew.

The battle over the Resolution Copper mine at Oak Flat is in its final stage, and its fate lies in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s a case that’s bringing together some strange bedfellows.

Monday marks the last time President Joe Biden will host leaders from across Indian Country at the White House for the Tribal Nations Summit. Then-President Barack Obama began this annual tradition in 2009.