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Two Native American tribes, the state of New Mexico and the U.S. Army have finalized a restoration plan for a former military installation near Gallup.

By Associated Press February 13, 2024
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court on Jan. 23 ruled that tribal courts have jurisdiction over personal injury and property damage cases brought against Native American casinos, ending a long battle that saw pueblos and other tribes advocate for protecting sovereignty when such legal claims arise.

By Associated Press January 30, 2024
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PHOENIX — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has proposed requiring students to attend public school for 100 days before becoming eligible for a voucher program in a move designed to rein in the skyrocketing costs and reduce the number of participants.

By Associated Press January 16, 2024
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — When Lily Gladstone took the stage the night of Jan. 7 to accept her first Golden Globe, she spoke to the live TV audience in the Blackfeet language.

By Associated Press January 16, 2024
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico marijuana regulators Jan. 3 revoked the licenses of two growing operations in a rural county for numerous violations and have levied a $1 million fine against each business.

By Associated Press January 9, 2024
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TUCSON, Ariz. — A federal grand jury in southern Arizona has indicted a Tucson man and woman in an alleged conspiracy to embezzle millions of dollars from a nonprofit, federally funded tribal health care organization.

By Associated Press January 2, 2024
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A federal grand jury indictment says two men killed about 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, during a "killing spree" on Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere. Federal authorities say the men then sold eagle parts on a black market that has been a long-running problem for U.S. wildlife officials.

By Associated Press January 2, 2024
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New oil and natural gas leasing will be prohibited on state land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park, an area sacred to Native Americans, for the next 20 years under an executive order by New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard.

By Associated Press December 19, 2023
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The tractors are back at work clearing land and building access roads for a $10 billion transmission line that the Biden administration describes as an important part of the nation’s transition to renewable energy.

By Associated Press December 5, 2023
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SANTA FE, N.M. — State prosecutors added hate-crime allegations Nov. 2 to charges of attempted murder against a New Mexico man accused in the shooting of a Native American activist amid confrontations about aborted plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador in public, at a court hearing Thursday in northern New Mexico.

By Associated Press November 7, 2023
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From Alcatraz Island to a park in New York City, Native American people celebrated their centuries-long history of resilience Oct. 9 with ceremonies, dances and speeches.

By Associated Press October 17, 2023
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez announced Monday that he's running for Congress. Nez, a 48-year-old Democrat, will vie for the seat occupied by incumbent Eli Crane, a Republican who has represented Arizona's redrawn 2nd Congressional District since last year.

By Associated Press October 16, 2023
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The Biden administration has pledged over $200 million toward reintroducing salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin in an agreement with tribes that includes a stay on litigation for 20 years.

By Associated Press September 26, 2023
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ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department has tapped an official with the federal government's water management bureau to serve as a deputy assistant secretary for water and science.

By Associated Press August 29, 2023
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SANTA FE, N.M. — A museum in New Mexico to honor the Navajo Code Talkers is about $40 million shy of becoming a reality, according to organizers.

By Associated Press August 22, 2023
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to murder in the starvation death of her 6-year-old son was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole July 27 after witnesses described the horrors of the tiny closet that reeked of urine where he and his young brother were kept and denied food.

By Associated Press July 27, 2023
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Evacuation orders for a handful of residents in western Arizona impacted by a wildfire have been lifted as fire danger escalates in parts of the West that have been left high and dry by an evaporating monsoon season.

By Associated Press July 11, 2023
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Grand Canyon National Park is getting $27.5 million in federal highway money to upgrade its aging fleet of shuttle buses, which help the more than four million annual visitors get around the huge park.

By Associated Press July 11, 2023
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A federal board has sided with one of the largest coal producers in the United States in a contract dispute with a major freight railroad, ordering BNSF Railway to transport at least 4.2 million tons of coal this year for overseas use.

By Associated Press July 3, 2023
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is urging President Joe Biden to use the Antiquities Act to designate the tribally proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument.

By Associated Press June 6, 2023
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and other top state officials announced a crackdown Tuesday, May 16, on Medicaid fraud, particularly honing in on illegitimate group homes.

By Associated Press May 23, 2023
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PHOENIX (AP) — Human remains that had been buried for decades in a California gravesite and marked as “Jane Doe" have been identified as a Navajo woman who went missing from northern Arizona, authorities said.

By Associated Press May 9, 2023
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TUCSON, Ariz. — The city of Tucson plans to return ancestral land tied to the Tohono O'odham Nation. The Arizona Daily Star reported the Tucson City Council unanimously approved a proposal earlier this month to give more than 10 acres of city land at the base of Sentinel Peak to the tribe.

By Associated Press May 2, 2023
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The U.S. government is embarking on an effort to record the oral histories of survivors and descendants of boarding schools that sought to “civilize” Indigenous students, often through abusive practices.

By Associated Press May 2, 2023
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The US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland joined tribal leaders and members of Congress to celebrate the newly designated Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada

By Associated Press April 25, 2023
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GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — Former Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly died Wednesday after a long illness, according to a family spokesman.

By Associated Press March 22, 2023
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Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed an executive order banning racial discrimination based on a person's hair in Arizona.

By Associated Press March 21, 2023
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Navajo National Monument has seen 69.4 inches of snow fall this year, more than double the average 28.3 inches typically accumulated by March 1st, while the North Rim has seen 205.5 inches this season.

By Associated Press March 7, 2023
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The department announced the appointment of Lynn Trujillo as senior counselor to the secretary Friday.

By Associated Press February 21, 2023
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Hefty snowfalls that fed the Colorado River in recent weeks may slow the water level decline of Lake Mead on the Nevada-Arizona border, according to some experts.

By Associated Press January 31, 2023
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President Joe Biden has approved a disaster declaration made by the Havasupai Tribe in northern Arizona

By Associated Press January 10, 2023
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Three bills to improve access to water for some tribes in Arizona during a drought are now waiting for President Joe Biden's approval.

By Associated Press January 3, 2023
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Six entities impacted by the 2015 Gold King Mine spill will share roughly $4 million in grants from a settlement, according to the New Mexico Attorney General's office.

By Associated Press December 28, 2022
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SIOUX FALLS S.D. (AP) — South Dakota prosecutors have dropped all charges against the head of an Indigenous-led advocacy organization stemming from a protest during then-President Donald Trump's visit to Mount Rushmore, the group announced Dec. 13.

By Associated Press December 20, 2022
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Arizona's most populous county is warning of a significantly rise in cases of the flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses.

By Associated Press December 13, 2022
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For years, the Indian Garden name assigned to a popular Grand Canyon campground has been a painful reminder for a Native American tribe that was displaced by the national park.

By Associated Press November 29, 2022
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The U.S. Interior Department's plan to withdraw hundreds of square miles in New Mexico from oil and gas production for the next 20 years is expected to result in only a few dozen wells not being drilled on federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park, according to an environmental assessment.

By Associated Press November 22, 2022
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Seth Damon announced Nov. 4 he would resign as Navajo Nation Council speaker, effective when the council elects someone else to fill the remainder of his term, which ends in January.

By Associated Press November 15, 2022
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The Supreme Court says it will hear a water dispute involving the U.S. government and the Navajo Nation.

By Associated Press November 8, 2022
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The Biden administration's approval of oil leases in a corner of New Mexico has become a battleground over increased development and preservation of Native American sites has prompted a legal challenge.

By Associated Press November 1, 2022
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PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — Rescuers used ropes and harnesses to hoist five people to safety after an elevator at a national tourist attraction broke down 21 stories underground.

By Associated Press October 26, 2022
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The body of a woman reported missing last week has been recovered from Lake Mohave in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, authorities said Monday.

By Associated Press October 25, 2022

Wild horse rights advocates are calling on authorities to prosecute whoever is responsible for the reported killing of more than a dozen wild horses in northeastern Arizona.

By Associated Press October 18, 2022
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SEDONA, Ariz. — Authorities are trying to identify four people who died in a fiery crash involving a passenger car and a tractor-tractor near Sedona.

By Associated Press September 20, 2022

The communications director for the Navajo Nation Council has been arrested for allegedly injuring a relative at his Gallup home, the Gallup Independent reported.

By Associated Press August 23, 2022
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It's been 80 years since the first Navajo Code Talkers joined the Marines, transmitting messages using a code based on their then-unwritten Native language to confound Japanese military cryptologists during World War II — and Thomas H. Begay, one of the last living members of the group, still remembers the struggle.

By Associated Press August 16, 2022
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Bill Donovan, a prolific journalist who covered the Navajo Nation for five decades at newspapers in New Mexico and Arizona, has died. He was 76.

By Associated Press August 9, 2022
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Navajo Nation leaders have finalized an agreement on spending priorities for more than $1 billion in federal pandemic relief to improve water, sanitation, housing and communications infrastructure.

By Associated Press July 26, 2022
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Yellowstone National Park will partially reopen at 8 a.m. June 22, after catastrophic flooding destroyed bridges and roads and drove out thousands of tourists.

By Associated Press June 21, 2022
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A man shot and wounded his estranged wife before fatally shooting her male friend and then turning the gun on himself, Flagstaff police said.

By Associated Press June 21, 2022

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