Navajo Nation sues feds over orders to block oil and gas drilling near Chaco Canyon
The complaint claims the order to remove land near Chaco Canyon from oil and gas leasing could cost residents millions of ...
We Checked Reports that ICE Is Detaining Native Americans in Deportation Raids
Posts on social media claimed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had targeted members of Native American nations for detention and deportation. Indeed, as ICE ramped up arrests for ...
First Native American district court judge named to San Juan and McKinley Counties
A Farmington attorney and a member of the Navajo Nation will be the first Native American to serve as a district court judge ...
Native leaders press for more action to address crisis of missing, murdered Indigenous people
As Utah lawmakers weigh legislation to maintain the task force investigating the disproportionately high number of missing ...
Utah was the last state to allow Native Americans to vote. Ending vote by mail will take that right away, advocates say.
Native American advocates worry election reforms in front of the Utah Legislature would continue a legacy of discrimination.
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Shipments of uranium ore can resume under agreement reached with the Navajo Nation
The agreement announced on Jan. 29 settles a dispute over trucking ore from a mining operation just south of the Grand Canyon ...
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Farmington attorney becomes first Native American district court judge in Eleventh Judicial District
Washinawatok, a Farmington attorney and enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, will be the first Native American to serve as a district court judge in the Eleventh Judicial District of San Juan and ...
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Native nations mobilize against ICE targeting and profiling
Native nations across Turtle Island are working to ensure their citizens’ safety amid widespread reports of Indigenous people ...
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Navajo woman appointed as first district court judge in New Mexico
A Farmington attorney has become the first Native American appointed to serve as a district court judge in the 11th Judicial ...
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Going home: Cattlewoman applies first-gen education on the Navajo Nation
Several years ago, Justina Slim sat on the couch at a family member’s home and entertained her infant nephew, Wade. She ...
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Native American students, ASU community members worry after statewide increase in ICE presence
The Navajo Nation published a press ... "There are individual instances of Native people being questioned in Flagstaff," said Jacob Moore, vice president and special advisor to the president on ...
Native American activist Leonard Peltier, freed from prison, is welcomed on North Dakota reservation
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful to his family and supporters as they ...