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Posted Mar 8, 2022, 1:13 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Ki:ki Housing Association, a Tohono O'odham agency, plans on using $3.45 million in federal COVID relief to build two homes and several roads that will give better access to four villages on the nation.... Read more»
Posted Feb 1, 2022, 11:03 am
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Pima County Board of Supervisors will open meetings with an acknowledgement of the "ancestral homelands" of the Tohono O'odham Nation and Pascua Yaqui Tribe, after a 4-1 vote Tuesday. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 19, 2022, 1:10 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Amber Ortega, a Southern Arizona border activist facing two federal charges for protesting the construction of the border wall near Quitobaquito Springs, was found not guilty by a judge on Wednesday. ... Read more»
Updated Oct 11, 2021, 12:58 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Monday marks, as is tradition, Columbus Day across the country. But it also, for the first time ever, is Indigenous Peoples Day, following President Joe Biden's national proclamation.... 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 Dec 14, 2020, 6:24 pm
Laura Gómez & Jeremy Duda/Arizona Mirror
Eleven presidential electors in Arizona cast their votes on Monday morning for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. By Monday afternoon, as electors in other states did the same, Biden had won enough votes to clinch the presidency.... Read more»
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Posted Feb 11, 2020, 12:02 pm
MacKinley Lutes-Adlhoch
/Cronkite News
Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris Jr. said the “controlled blasting” for a border wall that will ultimately cut through his reservation is just the latest example of the federal government ignoring its duty to consult with tribes. ... Read more»
Posted May 29, 2019, 4:13 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
The new chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation will be the same as an old chair: Ned Norris Jr. will again take the top elected post of the tribe, following an election over the weekend.... Read more»
Posted May 27, 2015, 8:31 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Ned Norris, Jr., isn't the tribal chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation anymore and it happened this week. What's that? First you heard of it? In ignoring what's going on on the rez, the media's missing a story for the ages.... Read more»
Posted May 7, 2015, 10:31 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Former U.S. Rep. Ron Barber and Tohono O'odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris were named to the Homeland Security Advisory Council on Wednesday. The group provides advice to Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson.... Read more»
Posted Apr 30, 2015, 10:42 am
Miranda Leo
/Cronkite News
Bills that would halt construction on a Tohono O’odham casino in Glendale passed committees in both the House and the Senate on Wednesday. The Keep the Promise Act of 2015 – introduced by U.S. Sen. John McCain and U.S. Rep. Trent Franks – would “prohibit gaming activities on certain Indian land in Arizona until the expiration of certain gaming compacts” in 2027.... Read more»
Posted Jul 25, 2013, 8:39 am
Evan Bell
/Cronkite News Service
A U.S. House committee gave overwhelming approval Wednesday to a bill that would block development of a Tohono O’odham casino on land the tribe bought inside Glendale. The bill would reverse years of failed legal challenges to the project, which opponents say violates a 2002 agreement among tribes not to build new casinos in the metropolitan Phoenix area.... Read more»
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