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Posted Jun 27, 2022, 4:36 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
The University of Arizona will cover full-time undergraduate tuition for members of the state's 22 federally recognized Native American tribes for any program on the school's main campus, officials announced Monday. ... Read more»
Posted Jun 13, 2022, 12:47 pm
Bianca Morales
/TucsonSentinel.com
Después de casi dos décadas de procesos legales, el pueblo de los Río Yaqui pronto podrán recibir artefactos sagrados devuelta a casa. ... Read more»
Posted Jun 8, 2022, 3:01 pm
Bianca Morales
/TucsonSentinel.com
A collection of Yaqui artifacts — including the sacred ceremonial deer head Maaso Koba — will be brought back across the world to its home in Mexico with the Rio Yaqui people, after being held by a Swedish museum for 100 years.... Read more»
Posted Apr 20, 2022, 2:18 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Local leaders in Southern Arizona came together Wednesday to throw their support behind the Environmental Justice for All Act, a congressional bill that aims to treat pollution in communities of color as a civil rights violation and create local funding for environmental cleanup. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 9, 2022, 7:35 am
Camila Pedrosa
/Cronkite News
Pascua Yaqui Chairman Peter Yucupicio told a House subcommittee Tuesday that tribes need more federal support to implement “critical” water infrastructure projects on their lands and called for increased engagement by the Army Corps of Engineers with tribes.... 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»
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Posted Jan 28, 2022, 1:01 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
A giant chill pill and a retired general's compromise plan has, for the moment, saved the Regional Transportation Authority as it moves toward a new 20-year plan for a special tax for roads throughout Pima County.... Read more»
Posted Jan 17, 2022, 4:44 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Pima County Board of Supervisors will consider on Tuesday adopting a land acknowledgement to be read before each meeting that would mention the history of Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui people in our area.... Read more»
Posted Dec 29, 2021, 11:32 am
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Tejano Roots Hall of Fame is honoring Peter Yucupicio, chairman of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, for his decades of playing bajo sexto with his family's band, Los Hermanos Cuatro.... Read more»
Posted Dec 29, 2021, 11:14 am
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
El Salón de la Fama de las Raíces Tejanas está honrando a Peter Yucupicio, presidente de la Tribu Pascua Yaqui, por sus décadas de tocar bajo sexto con la banda de su familia, Los Hermanos Cuatro.... Read more»
Posted Nov 3, 2021, 3:17 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe is closer to gaining control of Old Pascua, site of tribe’s first settlement in Tucson, after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill awarding to the tribe the Northwest Side area of several city blocks, which includes the site of a planned casino.
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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»
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Posted Oct 11, 2021, 9:04 am
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
El presidente mexicano AMLO pidió disculpas a Pascua Yaqui y otras tribus por crímenes históricos en una reunión un Sonora ... Read more»
Posted Oct 8, 2021, 9:17 am
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obredor issued an apology for "crimes of the state" committed against Native tribes, including the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, in a meeting last week. North of the border, President Biden became the first U.S. leader to proclaim Indigenous Peoples' Day.... Read more»
Posted Aug 16, 2021, 8:09 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe have ended their lawsuit against the Pima County Recorder's Office, with officials announcing that they'll cooperate to establish an early voting site on the tribe's reservation just outside Tucson.... Read more»
Posted Jan 27, 2021, 3:07 pm
Sarah Oven
/Cronkite News
$900,000 from an Army Corps of Engineers fund dedicated to water infrastructure projects in Arizona will be used to bring water to the tribe’s lands for irrigation, the first fruits of a successful effort last year by members of the state’s congressional delegation to win $150 million in federal funding for water projects around the state.... Read more»