The Indian Health Service was mostly spared in the federal government’s widespread staffing cuts, but tribal governments and ...

FORDHAM: But not all tribes in the area agree with that. BRENDA JESUS: The federal freeze on any more oil and gas leases is taking away from the economic opportunities for our Navajo people.

At one point, the federal government imposed a construction ban lasting 50 years on land both tribes had claimed as their own. The proximity of Navajo and Hopi makes it hard for the two tribes to ...

It should create a far more diverse and stable water portfolio for the tribes than they would have gotten in court. Navajo and Hopi would agree to jointly manage the groundwater under their lands ...

The Interior Department announced more than $119 million meant to aid communities reclaiming abandoned coal mines, naming a ...

There are 30 federally recognized tribes in the river’s basin, and 12 of them, including Navajo Nation, still have at least some “unresolved” rights, meaning the extent of their rightful ...

The Navajo, Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute tribes are hoping to close the deal quickly under a Democratic administration in Arizona and with Joe Biden as president. A landmark 1922 agreement ...

the director of the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources, “but when it comes to Arizona, it seems like we have different agendas.” The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1908 that tribes with ...

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