Tohono O'odham

The FBI and Tohono O’odham Nation police are investigating the fatal shooting of a tribal member by U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona.

The Tucson City Council unanimously approved a proposal to give more than 10 acres of city land at the base of Sentinel Peak to the tribe. The Hohokam, the ancestors of the Tohono O'odham, grew crops and thrived for more than 4,500 years at the peak.

The Tohono O’odham Nation and the Gila River Indian Community argue the that requirements will disenfranchise Native voters as it will leave many tribal members unable to register to vote.

Legislation was introduced today to protect one of the most culturally significant and ecologically fragile landscapes in the Southwest. The Great Bend of the Gila Conservation Act will establish a 330,000-acre conservation area, as well as the 47,000-acre Palo Verde National Conservation Area and nearly 60,000-acres of new wilderness in the Sonoran Desert.

A lightning-caused wildfire burning in southern Arizona southwest of Tucson forced evacuations of a small community on the Tohono O’odham Nation Friday. The Contreras Fire burned four buildings at the Kitt Peak National Observatory.

First lady Jill Biden touted her husband’s push to eradicate cancer and the Biden administration’s efforts to improve health care for Native Americans during a stop at the Tohono O’odham Nation outside Tucson on Tuesday.

A Tohono O’odham woman was found not guilty Wednesday on federal misdemeanor charges stemming from her protest of border wall construction on her tribe’s ancestral land.

An elite unit of Native American trackers in Arizona known as the Shadow Wolves could be classified as special agents by the federal government.

The leader of the Tohono O’odham Nation denounced the use of tear gas on protesters near the U.S.-Mexico border. "The use of tear gas on O’odham and…

Authorities say a Tohono O’odham police officer was killed yesterday while trying to apprehend a suspect on tribal land near the tiny southern Arizona…