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Posted May 12, 2022, 2:27 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
In a win for environmental groups and three Native American tribes,, a federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that halted the long-controversial Rosemont open-pit copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains about 30 miles southeast of Tucson.... Read more»
Posted Apr 20, 2022, 1:43 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Rosemont Copper's move to expand its operations in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson faces a new challenge after the Tohono O'odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Hopi Tribe asked a federal court to block the company from grading the slopes and dumping fill material in dry washes. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 14, 2022, 1:49 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Led by Center for Biological Diversity, environmental groups filed a notice of intent—a prelude to a federal lawsuit—against Rosemont Copper, arguing the company violated federal law.... Read more»
Posted Dec 16, 2021, 6:30 am
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission’s draft maps for both the state’s 30 legislative districts and nine congressional districts — which will be used for the next decade — weaken the influence that Native American voters will have on who gets elected.... Read more»
Posted Dec 10, 2021, 6:26 am
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
A new proposal in Congress would let Arizona’s Colorado River Indian Tribes lease portions of their federal Colorado River allocations for the first time, a move the tribes said would benefit both the river and tribal economies.... Read more»
Posted Sep 23, 2021, 5:26 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
More Native veterans will find housing with a $400,000 federal grant to the Tohono O'odham Nation to pay for rental assistance and support services. The tribe is receiving the largest grant in the country awarded under a Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs program.... Read more»
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Posted Jun 28, 2021, 11:12 am
Emma Ascott
/Cronkite News
With nearly 1,000 bodies in mass graves discovered this month on the grounds of Canadian boarding schools amid their ongoing investigation, and Secretary of the Interior Deb Halaand’s recent pledge to investigate past abuses in the U.S., Arizona’s Indigenous boarding schools will face fresh scrutiny.... Read more»
Posted Jun 18, 2021, 5:09 pm
Brooke Newman
/Cronkite News
While members of the House Natural Resources subcommittee sparred over the American Jobs Plan, tribal leaders focused more on the laundry list of needs for Native Americans, from schools and healthcare to roads and public safety, and less on where the money comes from.... Read more»
Posted Apr 21, 2021, 12:25 pm
Lillian Clark
/Arizona Mirror
Native American voters helped secure President Joe Biden’s narrow win in 2020, but Republican-backed proposals at the state legislature to restrict voting access could make the challenges tribal voters overcame last year even more daunting in 2022. ... Read more»
Posted May 29, 2020, 5:39 pm
Bree Florence
/Cronkite News
After weeks of grim news as the pandemic tore through the Navajo Nation, the curve of positive COVID-19 cases has begun to flatten, President Jonathan Nez said Thursday.... Read more»
Posted May 29, 2020, 4:35 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
Federal regulators have given a Phoenix company the green light to study a hydropower project for the Little Colorado River, what opponents fear is a first step toward “destroying incredibly rare, beautiful, sacred resources.”... Read more»
Posted Mar 28, 2020, 12:47 pm
Luis Zambrano & Grace Lieberman
Native Americans are seeking more help from the federal government to fight COVID-19, even as the Navajo Nation and other tribes take steps to combat the disease themselves – including raising money to help vulnerable citizens and issuing shelter-in-place orders. ... Read more»
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Posted Jan 2, 2020, 9:29 am
Harrison Mantas
/Cronkite News
The Navajo Generating Station and its affiliated Kayenta coal mine, now closed, face several years of decommissioning and cleanup as well as the possibility of decades of environmental monitoring of the sites, which closed down for good this fall after a two-year fight over their futures.... Read more»
Posted Oct 8, 2019, 5:42 pm
Harrison Mantas
/Cronkite News
The repatriation of Arizona tribal artifacts, announced Wednesday during Finnish President Sauli Niinistö’s visit to the White House, follows years of cooperation between the tribes and the National Museum of Finland,
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Posted Sep 26, 2019, 11:48 am
Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola
/Cronkite News
State officials agree that none of the $150,000 allocated for a task force on missing and murdered indigenous women that was created in May has been seen yet. But they disagree on who’s to blame.... Read more»
Updated Aug 1, 2019, 9:01 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Forest Service "improperly evaluated and misapplied" federal law, leading to "an inherently flawed" approval of a long-controversial open-pit copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains southeast of Tucson.... Read more»