Indigeneous People

The Federal Communications Commission approved a nationwide alert system similar to the Amber Alert for missing and endangered Indigenous people.

A report found the University of Arizona’s Arizona State Museum doesn’t have enough staff, space or funding to conduct adequate repatriation efforts of its collection of Native American remains and artifacts.

Grand Canyon National Park celebrated the premiere of a new film that will educate visitors about the 11 Indigenous tribes who consider the canyon sacred.

New Mexico's attorney general will intervene to ensure state education officials comply with court-ordered mandates to improve education for Indigenous students and others.

Tribes and advocates for limiting mining around Grand Canyon National Park are expressing hope that a new national monument will preserve the land for future generations.

A federal commission tasked with addressing the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people has concluded a series of hearings it held throughout the country this year.

During Friday’s Pride ceremony on the Navajo Nation, Delegate Seth Damon signed legislation recognizing same-sex marriages.

Indigenous leaders are praising a decision by the U-S Supreme Court upholding a law that keeps adopted Native children among their tribes. It’s seen as a major case in defending tribal autonomy.

The Supreme Court has preserved the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children.

Navajo law enforcement teams made contact with several hundred Native Americans from various tribes who are living on the streets in the metro Phoenix area, after the state cracked down on Medicaid fraud and suspended unlicensed sober living homes.