School buses carry children across the vast Navajo Nation south of Rock Point in 2002 on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. Photo by David McNew | Getty Images Five tribal nations in Arizona received ...

Religious rights advocates and First Amendment experts say the ability of Native peoples to exercise religious rights is at ...

Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in ...

PHOENIX — Five tribal nations in Arizona have been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Interior to help their communities prepare for the threats their land will face because of climate change ...

WASHINGTON — The way Navajo Nation Council Delegate Lee Jack Sr. sees it, “God gave us different ways to speak, God gave us different ways to live.” It stands to reason, then, that we should have ...

PHOENIX — Several Native American tribes in Arizona are close to legalizing recreational marijuana, according to a legal expert. “They are moving cautiously,” Arizona professor Robert Williams said.

Tribal leaders had voiced frustration in recent weeks about talks on the Colorado River, but pledged cooperation in a new ...

GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY — During one of his stops visiting tribal communities in Arizona, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was scheduled to take part in a panel ...

PHOENIX – Native Americans in Arizona and three other states could now see government health coverage for some traditional healing practices. On Oct. 16, the Biden administration announced it had ...

FORT McDOWELL RESERVATION — Eddie Smith heads the first tribal fire department in Arizona that's part of a system that can provide extra equipment and personnel at the push of a button. That agreement ...

Arizona’s governor on Tuesday signed legislation to create an alert system for Native Americans who have gone missing in the state, a measure that won unanimous approval from lawmakers in the wake of ...

PHOENIX – Arizona’s governor on Tuesday signed legislation to create an alert system for Native Americans who have gone missing in the state, a measure that won unanimous approval from lawmakers in ...