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This summer, the Grand Canyon Trust and Grand Canyon Youth will host their second Indigenous-led trip down the Colorado River. It’s meant for Native youth who want to connect with the cultural knowledge-keepers of their tribes.
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Gov. Katie Hobbs has announced actions against more than a hundred alleged fraudulent Medicaid providers that allegedly cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.
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President Joe Biden has declared today Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. In recent years on May 5 advocates have brought added attention to the continued epidemic of unsolved cases throughout Indian Country.
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This Sunday is the 104th anniversary of the founding of Grand Canyon National Park. But Indigenous peoples have called the Grand Canyon home for thousands of years before the park came into being. A new short film honors their stories. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with Diné filmmaker Deidra Peaches about the documentary, which is available online and will play at the South Rim visitor center.
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The Biden administration has announced a new fund to assist tribal communities that’ve been severely impacted by climate change.
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Tribal members and environmental advocates will hold an annual protest Saturday at the site of the only operational uranium mill in the U.S. They’re concerned about its potential impacts to public health and the environment.
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The first Native American woman in space says she's overwhelmed by the beauty and delicacy of Mother Earth.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior wants to revise how it repatriates tribal cultural objects and human remains. Thousands of items taken from tribal and federal lands have been housed in museums for decades.
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An expert in the field of Indigenous art has been named as the executive director of New Mexico’s Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.
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Hualapai tribal land in northwestern Arizona borders 100 miles of the Colorado River, but the tribe can't draw from it.