INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Mammoth bones found on the Colorado Plateau may shift the timeline of when humans first reached the Americas. Archaeologists are debating what the discovery means.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety, which reviews and distributes all statewide alerts for missing people, says the new Turquoise Alert system is working as intended.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Apache Stronghold to halt a massive copper mining project at Oak Flat in central Arizona.

Five decades ago, a young Hopi underwent a grueling journey as part of a traditional initiation ceremony near the winter solstice. He recently recalled the experience to author Scott Thybony, and talked about how the test of his endurance and commitment to the Hopi way taught him humility.

President Joe Biden declared the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in Pennsylvania on Monday. It acknowledges the decades of trauma inflicted on tribal communities throughout the U.S. and in Arizona, which had the second-highest number of the schools in the nation.

In this month's Canyon Commentary, author Scott Thybony sets out to find a spring, which is also the location of Arizona's oldest known Spanish inscription along an ancient trail from Hopi to Zuni.

In the newest installment of his Canyon Commentary, author Scott Thybony recalls a visit to White Mountain Apache country where he heard a story about a boy and his dog and the mountain spirits.

N. Scott Momaday has died at age 89 after becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist.

Three new and upgraded health facilities recently opened in Arizona to provide Native Americans with better access to health care, and more are in the works.

An Arizona grand jury has indicted three people on 19 felony counts related to the ongoing wide investigation into fraudulent sober living homes that targeted Native Americans.