Indigenous iconography plays a role in Arizona scholastic sports, and there isn't a willingness to have difficult conversations about such topics as Native American mascots in the Legislature - and not all Native Americans agree the names and logos are racist. Read more» 
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Dozens of people sang, danced and prayed outside the San Carlos Apache tribe’s office on Thursday morning before heading out on a 44-mile journey they hope will protect their ancestral lands at Oak Flat campground. The protesters organized the march to express their anger over a federal land exchange that gave a copper mining company permission to mine land sacred to the Apache people. Read more» 1
The number of American Indians who claimed to be multiracial jumped sharply over the last decade, but not so much in Arizona, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. Read more»
