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Stories by Calah Schlabach
Posted Dec 24, 2020, 10:47 am
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
Tribal leaders' hopes for for better relations with the federal government were reinforced last week when a Native woman, Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., was nominated to be secretary of Interior. If approved, she would be the first Native American Cabinet secretary.... Read more»
Posted Dec 21, 2020, 1:36 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
Background checks for gun purchases in Arizona hit their highest level ever in 2020, driven by an unprecedented convergence of a pandemic, a summer of national unrest and a presidential election, experts said.... Read more»
Posted Dec 11, 2020, 11:59 am
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
Arizona Democratic Party Chair Felecia Rotellini said she wanted to choose electors who would “represent the diversity of Arizona, and the diversity of Arizona voters, as well as Arizona Democratic voters.” That included the three tribal leaders with “deep roots to our state.”... Read more»
Posted Dec 4, 2020, 11:16 am
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
With a shortage of beds, oxygen and staff, the Navajo Nation can no longer depend on regional aid and is sending critical patients farther afield for care, officials reported Thursday.... Read more»
Posted Nov 12, 2020, 1:56 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
A Navajo Nation probe of a controversial, Navajo-owned hemp operation has turned into a federal investigation into reports of marijuana production, interstate drug trafficking and violations of labor and child labor laws.... Read more»
Posted Oct 30, 2020, 11:51 am
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
The Federal Communications Commission has granted broadband spectrum licenses to 11 Arizona tribes in what FCC Chairman Ajit Pai called “a major step forward in our efforts to close the digital divide on Tribal lands.”... Read more»
Posted Oct 26, 2020, 12:17 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe will not get the early voting location it has been asking for since 2018, after a federal judge flatly denied the request he said would overburden an elections office “already stretched to its breaking point.”... Read more»
Posted Oct 16, 2020, 1:33 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
Native Americans may face barriers to voting in general, but that is not enough to require that ballots mailed from the Navajo Nation get 10 extra days to be counted, a federal appeals court said Thursday.... Read more»
Posted Oct 8, 2020, 2:10 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
A federal appeals court Tuesday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that would have given Arizona voters five days past Election Day to fix early ballots that were accidentally filed without a signature.... Read more»
Posted Oct 5, 2020, 1:44 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would hear Arizona’s defense of two election laws, on ballot-collecting and out-of-precinct voting, that were struck down by a lower court earlier this year as racially discriminatory.... Read more»
Posted Sep 30, 2020, 2:39 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
Hopi Chairman Timothy Nuvangyaoma said it is “critical” that lawmakers reauthorize the Special Diabetes Program for Indians, which serves tribes across Arizona and the nation.... Read more»
Posted Sep 28, 2020, 2:03 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
Native American advocates and victim’s families have worked for years to draw attention to Indian Country’s epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women.... Read more»
Posted Sep 21, 2020, 2:13 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
What was a showdown between the Pascua Yaqui tribe, the Pima County Board of Supervisors and the county’s recorder has now turned into a stalemate.
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Posted Sep 15, 2020, 2:05 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
Advocates said a new policy that lets Arizona residents without traditional street addresses register to vote online is not perfect – but it’s a vast improvement over the old process.... Read more»
Posted Sep 14, 2020, 10:59 am
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
Lawmakers and tribal leaders berated the Bureau of Indian Education on Thursday for a school reopening plan that prioritizes in-person learning, despite tribes’ opposition to the plan in the face of COVID-19 health concerns.... Read more»
Posted Sep 4, 2020, 4:00 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
At least two Pima County supervisors will “press forward” to get an early voting site reinstated on the Pascua-Yaqui reservation, setting up a showdown with the county recorder who rejected the request again this week.... Read more»