Stories tagged: "Indigenous Community"
The US Interior Department on Tuesday unveiled a new program to bring electricity to more homes in Native American communities as the Biden administration looks to funnel more money toward climate and renewable energy projects.
Harris committed the Biden Administration to addressing disparities resulting from centuries of broken treaties, harmful assimilation policies, displacement, dispossession, and violence.
The San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe shares land with the Navajo Nation, and for the past 23 years it has had a treaty pending that would give them their own lands.
Murder is the third-leading cause of death among American Indian and Alaska Native women, with Tucson having the highest number of cases of missing and murdered women and girls.
There are 22 federally recognized Native American tribes in Arizona, three of which extend across state lines.
Today about 500 of the nearly 770 tribal members live in Supai Village on the reservation adjacent to the Grand Canyon, so remote it can be reached only by foot, mule or helicopter.