Stories tagged: "tribal nations"


Ben Shelly sits among a crowd awaiting results of the Miss Navajo Nation pageant in Window Rock, Ariz., on Sept. 11, 2010. Shelly, the former Navajo Nation President, died Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in New Mexico after a long illness, family spokesman Deswood Tome said.(AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
Former Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly ‘Put Others First’

Former Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, who pushed ambitious projects that included purchasing a coal mine and building an aerial tram into the Grand Canyon, has died.

FILE - This photo shows Colorado River water running through farmland on the Colorado River Indian Tribes reservation, Feb. 19, 2018 in Parker, Ariz. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca, File)
Arizona Tribes Set to Receive Over $120 Million for Water Infrastructure Improvements

A century-old promise to provide indigenous communities access to water will soon be fulfilled, thanks in part to a renewed push to improve the nation’s infrastructure.

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Biden Awards Millions to Expand High-Speed Internet Access to Tribal Communities

Department of Commerce announces $146 million in awards through the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, with another $1 billion in funding now available.

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Announces 16 Tribal Water Settlements Will Get $1.7 Billion

"I am grateful that Tribes, some of whom have been waiting for this funding for decades, are finally getting the resources they are owed," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said.

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200 Pascua Yaqui Families Getting New Homes Through Arizona Tax Credits to Tribe

“I think the average wait for families is around seven years,” he said, “so these are families that have been waiting and in desperate need."

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Tribal Officials Outline Infrastructure Gap ‘Big as the Grand Canyon’

“It’s time for America to support the Navajo Nation and all Indigenous communities and invest in utility infrastructure.” Tribes face a digital divide “as big as the Grand Canyon” and a “not even quantifiable” lack of utility access, just two of the problems outlined at a House hearing Wednesday on infrastructure needs on tribal land....

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Buttigieg: Tribal Lands Investment a Priority of Infrastructure Plan

The plan prioritizes improving water infrastructure, internet, housing, transportation, and roads on tribal lands. The infrastructure needs of tribal lands—for everything from water to housing to broadband—are a high priority of the Biden administration’s $2.2 trillion American Jobs Plan, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said this week. Buttigieg, in a call with reporters Monday to discuss...