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Desert Diamond West Valley casino
Tribes with casinos in Arizona shared more than $153 million of their revenue with local governments during the fiscal year that ends June 30.
Jun. 22, 2023
Navajo Nation president's office
The president of the Navajo Nation has declared a public health state of emergency. It’s for tribal members affected by the fraudulent behavioral health schemes targeting them in the Phoenix area.
Jun. 21, 2023
Dilkon Medical Center
The Show spoke with reporter Umar Farooq on the inconsistent water sources in the Navajo Nation and how a lack of resource has left a $128 million facility unable to open.
Jun. 20, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court building
The Show was joined by Rebecca Nagle, host of the This Land podcast, to talk more about the implications of the landmark decision to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Jun. 19, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court
The president of the Navajo Nation has weighed in on the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act. The law gives preference to Native tribes when Native American children are adopted or enter into foster care.
Jun. 15, 2023
Carbon Sovereignty Andrew Curley
Coal has long been a major part of the economy of the Navajo Nation. Andrew Curley examines that legacy in a new book called “Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation.”
Jun. 15, 2023
Navajo Nation president's office
The attorney general for the Navajo Nation said Monday that nearly 300 victims have been found of a sober living home scheme in Arizona that targeted Native Americans.
Jun. 12, 2023
Desert Diamond West Valley casino
Tribal gaming in Arizona reaches a major milestone. The Arizona Indian Gaming Association said the state has received $2 billion in gaming revenue and an official recording of the amount is expected in July.
Jun. 8, 2023
Flagstaff Arizona sign Fort Valley Road
The Flagstaff City Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to back the creation of a new national monument around the Grand Canyon. The resolution endorses calling on President Joe Biden to form the new Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument.
Jun. 8, 2023
Ryan Allison
Ryan Allison has loved graphic design since he was a kid wearing band T-shirts. Today, he’s a graphic designer himself, as well as a musician. Allison is Navajo. He grew up surrounded by real-life cowboys in Fort Defiance, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. Allison talked to The Show about how his culture — rich with art and history — feeds his work.
Jun. 6, 2023
On Monday, a coalition of House Republicans, including Arizona’s Paul Gosar, signed a letter calling for an investigation into Haaland’s work with the Pueblo Action Alliance, a New Mexico advocacy group opposed to drilling in the Chaco Canyon region.
Jun. 5, 2023
Traditional medicine Ayahuasca. Banisteriopsis caapi wood pieces. Medical natural psychedelics, Enteogens.
Growing Western interest in psychedelic drugs has many Indigenous people sounding the alarm. These are plants they have been cultivating relationships with for millennia and, to do it right, they say, Western medicine should create bridges with traditional knowledge holders.
Jun. 5, 2023
Patricia Nez Henderson
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a mental health toll on almost everyone. For Native American communities, COVID was especially devastating. Life after COVID isn’t easy, and now some are turning to mindfulness practices to address compassion fatigue and burnout.
Jun. 2, 2023
Fajada Butte is a butte in Chaco Culture
The Navajo Nation’s government criticized the U.S. Department of the Interior for protecting a swath of Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico from new oil and gas leasing for the next 20 years.
Jun. 2, 2023
Grand Canyon National Park
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has urged President Joe Biden to use the Antiquities Act to designate the proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument.
Jun. 1, 2023
border patrol patch
The family of a Tohono O’odham tribal member Raymond Mattia, who was fatally shot by the Border Patrol on tribal land this month, has released a statement about the May 18 incident.
May. 26, 2023
Inside Memorial Hall at Steele Indian School Park, the room filled with people there to attend the meeting about Operation Rainbow Bridge.
Navajo leaders met Wednesday in Phoenix to address a massive scheme to defraud the state’s Medicaid system and that preyed on tribal members from as far away as Gallup, New Mexico.
May. 25, 2023
border patrol patch
Tohono O'odham tribal member Raymond Mattia was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents during an incident in the Tohono O'odham Nation late Thursday night.
May. 23, 2023
Jennifer Granholm
In a visit to Arizona this week, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced several grants to fund projects benefiting Indigenous communities.
May. 23, 2023
Hopi Tribe
The Hopi Tribe is receiving $48 million for water infrastructure repairs and improvements. Some of the funding will go toward increasing access to water not contaminated with arsenic.
May. 23, 2023

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