Indigeneous People

Native American leaders testified Friday before a House committee in support of creating a special $50 million trust fund to help finance educational programs within New Mexico's tribal communities.

The FBI is looking for potential victims who may have been recruited to live in government funded group homes in Phoenix between January 2020 and the present. The Navajo-Hopi Observer reports the facilities are targeting Native Americans from the Navajo Nation and other tribes.

The idea came from a card collector who said eight Indigenous players who originally played in the NHL were missing and needed to be acknowledged.

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will be in Phoenix and on the Navajo Nation this weekend on the latest stop of “The Road to Healing Tour.” It’s a year-long cross-country initiative to give Indigenous survivors and descendants of the federal Indian boarding school system an opportunity to tell their stories.

Sonia Guajajara will lead the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. She is widely known as the leader of the main umbrella group for Brazil’s many Indigenous tribes and is a member of the Amazon Guajajara tribe. This year she made Time Magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

Authorities say 43-year-old Norman Holtsoi Yazzie was last seen leaving his home in Twin Lakes, New Mexico. His family states they last had text message contact with him on December 23, 2022.

President Joe Biden is pledging to give Native Americans a stronger voice in federal affairs.

What could be rarer than diamonds? Turquoise, actually! Natural gemstone-grade turquoise happens to be one of the rarest natural materials on our planet, and one that has been celebrated, collected, and coveted worldwide. Here in the Southwest, turquoise holds special significance to many Native cultures.

Several tribes and environmental groups have filed legal motions in lawsuits challenging the restoration of national monuments in southern Utah. The groups aim to defend President Joe Biden’s protections of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that the state Department of Environmental Quality illegally issued a Clean Water Act permit for the proposed Resolution Copper mine, which is being opposed by the San Carlos Apache Tribe.