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Posted May 18, 2022, 7:40 am
Nancy Marie Spears
/Gaylord News
Native American tribes – from Alabama to Michigan to Kansas – are increasingly buying back or being gifted back property in their ancestral homelands, either to build economic sustainability or to manage cultural preservation sites.... Read more»
Posted May 13, 2022, 5:50 am
Ariana Figueroa
/Arizona Mirror
Native American survivors of Indian boarding schools detailed to a House subcommittee the need for Congress to establish a commission dedicated to unveiling the traumas Indigenous children experienced because of the forcible removal policy.... Read more»
Posted May 12, 2022, 1:11 pm
Clay Jones
/Claytoonz
A grandmother dying from heatstroke in August because she can’t afford air conditioning may not be as glamorous as goons shooting Bugsy Siegel in Beverly Hills, but it’s the death we should be talking about. We still don’t know who killed Bugsy or why, but we know what's killing grandma. Climate change.... Read more»
Posted May 12, 2022, 12:35 am
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
For the first time in history, the Department of Interior investigated the federal Indian boarding school system across the United States, identifying more than 400 schools and over 50 burial sites - with Arizona home to 47 of those schools.... Read more»
Posted May 11, 2022, 1:21 pm
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
Arizona carried out its first execution in seven years Wednesday morning, lethally injecting Clarence Dixon with pentobarbital for the killing of 21-year-old ASU student Deana Bowdoin in 1978, less than a day after Dixon’s final appeal was denied.... Read more»
Posted May 9, 2022, 2:24 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Tucson Music Hall will now carry the name of famed singer and Tucson native Linda Rondstadt as she was honored by Mayor Regina Romero just before the Tucson International Mariachi Conference Saturday evening. ... Read more»
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Posted May 9, 2022, 5:55 am
Ken Armstrong
/ProPublica
In writing about abortion, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito chose to quote from Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century English jurist whose writings and reasonings have caused enduring damage to women for hundreds of years.... Read more»
Posted May 6, 2022, 3:07 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
After withering criticism and allegations that they have worked to "cover up" shootings involving agents, Border Patrol's Critical Incident Teams are being "eliminated," announced Chris Magnus, head of Customs and Border Protection.
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Posted May 4, 2022, 6:40 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Camp Naco in Southern Arizona was added to the list of America's "11 most endangered historic places" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It was built in 1919 and housed Buffalo Soldiers and Civilian Conservation Corps workers in the early 20th century. ... Read more»
Posted May 2, 2022, 10:30 am
Victoria Prieskop
/Courthouse News
After two years of virtual events, the Gathering of Nations - the world’s largest pow wow - returned in Albuquerque as people from 560 Native American tribes and more than 200 Indigenous tribes from Canada attended to celebrate traditional culture.... Read more»
Posted Apr 29, 2022, 9:44 am
Mikaela DeLeon
/Gaylord News
Attorneys for the state of Oklahoma and Supreme Court justices sparred Wednesday over claims that “thousands of crimes” have gone unprosecuted in the two years since the court removed state jurisdiction over many crimes in a large part the state.... Read more»
Posted Apr 29, 2022, 8:11 am
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
The Arizona Board of Executive Clemency declined a request for clemency by reasons of mental incompetency brought by a man convicted of killing an Arizona State University student in 1977. ... Read more»
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Posted Apr 27, 2022, 2:44 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Republican Congressman Paul Gosar posted — and later deleted — a meme rooted in violent and racist online culture that was praised by neo-Nazis and white nationalists. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 19, 2022, 6:18 am
Lomi Kriel, Perla Trevizo & Andrew Rodriguez Calderón/ProPublica
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his successor, Gov. Greg Abbott, have persuaded the Texas Legislature to spend billions of dollars on border security measures - but the way the governors have tracked success has fluctuated over the years.... Read more»
Updated Apr 14, 2022, 4:35 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Local music legends will take the Hotel Congress stage Saturday, but along with River Roses, Sidewinders and Giant Sand there was to be one performer who's become more notorious for his posting of antisemitic screeds and pro-Nazi memes — Chuck Maultsby of Chuck Wagon and the Wheels.... Read more»
Posted Apr 14, 2022, 7:52 am
Tok Thompson
/USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences/The Conversation
The Easter Bunny is a much celebrated character in American Easter celebrations, and the the origins of this mythical figure has taken a long and interesting journey from European prehistory to today. ... Read more»