Hualapai Tribe

Mohave County authorities say a man fell to his death last week at the Grand Canyon Skywalk tourist attraction.

A push to establish a new national monument near the Grand Canyon gained steam recently with the visit of U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. For years, tribes and environmentalists have advocated for added protections in the area.

A vintage gas station in Peach Springs owned by the Hualapai Tribe has been named as one of America’s most endangered historic places.

President Joe Biden has approved three bills that will improve access to water for three tribes in Arizona amid an unrelenting drought.

Three bills that would improve access to water for some tribes in Arizona amid an unrelenting drought are now poised for President Joe Biden’s desk.

The Navajo Transitional Energy Company has partnered with an Australian-owned mining company to develop a proposed open-pit lithium mining operation in western Arizona.

The Utah agave is also known as the century plant. But it doesn’t really take a century for this blue-green succulent to send up a long stalk and bloom—more like forty years. Just before it blooms, it’s full of sugars. That’s the perfect time to harvest its heart, a culinary tradition among the Hualapai people going back thousands of years.

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee approved bills granting water rights to the Hualapai, letting the Colorado River Indian Tribes lease their water and adding funding and extending the deadline for review of a water system for the White Mountain Apache.

Hualapai tribal land in northwestern Arizona borders 100 miles of the Colorado River, but the tribe can't draw from it.

A bill under consideration by Congress would ratify the water rights of the Hualapai Tribe in Arizona. If passed, it would give the tribe access to four thousand acre-feet of water annually; and also fund a pipeline to communities and the Skywalk in Grand Canyon West. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with tribal chairman Damon Clarke about the importance of the long-awaited agreement.