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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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A cross-section of tribal leaders, law enforcement, advocates and others held a hearing this week in northern Arizona as part of a national effort to combat the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
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The U.S. Department of Energy hopes to use nearly $15 million in federal grants to boost clean energy development at tribal colleges and universities around the country.
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U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Friday on a trip to Las Vegas that the newly designated Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada marks a new era of conservation.
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Tribal leaders joined state lawmakers Tuesday to call on President Joe Biden to set aside more than 1.1 million acres around the Grand Canyon as a new national monument.
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A nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the cultural significance of horses in Native American communities has received a grant to offer classes in the care of horses’ hooves.
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President Joe Biden has established national monuments in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary southwest of Hawaii.
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A geoglyph or an intaglio is a large design created on the ground using land elements best viewed from the sky. The most well-known geoglyphs may be Peru’s Nazca lines, stylized figures of plants and animals, some thousands of feet wide. Yet well over 600 geoglyphs have been identified along the Colorado River from Nevada along the Arizona/California border to the Gulf of California into Northern Mexico.
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For millennia tribal groups of the Southwest made baskets from local plants to use as specialized harvest tools. Skills are still passed down among basket weaving families to maintain the tradition. The baskets played a crucial role in gathering and processing food and other resources, and in celebratory events.
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Nearly a hundred million dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funding will go toward broadband infrastructure in Arizona. The Biden administration says it’ll help close the digital divide in the state.