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On April 1, 1993, the Labriola National American Indian Data Center was created within the ASU Library to serve as a national repository of Native American documents and materials and to provide access to this information through nationwide computer databases. Now in its 30th year, the Indigenous library has become an essential resource for the ASU community.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, which helps keep Native American adoptees with their families and tribes. Barbara Atwood, a professor emerita of law, discusses the act's

The UArizona New Dawn-Warrior Women project is helping expand the reach of Tucson's Native Ways Program, which helps clients with substance use recovery while incorporating Native American culture

Barbara Atwood, a professor emerita of law and an expert on the act, discusses the history of the law and the arguments in the case.

A webinar hosted by The Conversation brings together experts in law, health, policy and Indigenous affairs to explain some of the most pressing problems related to water in the US.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren asked senators for more funding and time for a pipeline project that would supply water to a quarter of a million people across Arizona and New Mexico.

Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Gila River Indian Community Thursday. She addressed disparities facing Native communities.

Raymond Mattia’s family said the partial release of body camera footage “feels like a cheap attempt to justify what they did.”

Oak Flat, a mountainous area east of Phoenix, is an Apache sacred site where Native Americans gather to pray and perform coming-of-age ceremonies and sweat rituals.

Oak Flat, a mountainous area east of Phoenix, is an Apache sacred site where Native Americans gather to pray and perform coming-of-age ceremonies and sweat rituals.

For young Navajo people, the lack of water makes it more difficult to return to the Navajo Nation to make a permanent home.

By a narrow margin, the Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a case over water rights in the drought-stricken US Southwest.

The tribe is blocked from pursuing a lawsuit claiming the federal government has a duty to assert the tribe’s water rights.

Stephanie Russo Carroll, associate director of the Native Nations Institute, has focused her career on encouraging institutions to adopt policies and practices that recognize Indigenous Peoples'

Authorities say U.S. Border Patrol agents answering reports of gunfire shot and killed a man on a tribal reservation in southern Arizona after he threw something and abruptly raised his arm. The Thursday night death of Raymond Mattia is under investigation by the FBI and Tohono O’odham Nation. A statement Monday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection says tribal police had asked Border Patrol agents for help in responding to a report of shots fired near the home of a man in a tribal community near the U.S.-Mexico border. The statement says three Border Patrol agents opened fire after encountering a man who threw some kind of object and “abruptly extended” his arm.

Raymond Mattia of the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona was shot by agents after calling them for assistance

The Pascua Yaqui Tribe has drafted regulations in an effort to formalize the border-crossing process for their relatives in Mexico coming to their reservation in Arizona. Like dozens of Native American nations across the U.S., the Pascua Yaqui Tribe was sliced in two by modern-day international borders. When deer dancers and musicians living in Sonora, Mexico, make the trip into the U.S. for ceremonies, they may be detained or have their cultural objects confiscated. The effort is part of their work with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s recently formed Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council. DHS did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the status of the regulations.

A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday said the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe's usual and accustomed fishing grounds don't include the Skagit River, a win for the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe in a fishing rights suit involving a Washington state river that supports important populations of wild salmon.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) – After a unanimous city council vote, 10.6 acres of ancestral land will begin to be returned to the Tohono O’odham Nation.

The city of Tucson is returning a portion of ancestral land to the Tohono O’odham Nation in a new resolution unanimously passed by the City Council this week. The nearly 11-acre stretch of land is located at the base of Sentinel Peak, a more than 2,000 foot peak southwest of what is today downtown Tucson. The Santa Cruz river runs right next to one side of the mountain's base and the Tohono O’odham’s Hohokam ancestors have farmed and lived there for more than 4,500 years.Mayor Regina Romero calls it the birthplace of Tucson.

PHOENIX (AP) — Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider sacred say they are increasingly worried U.S. officials will publish an environmental …

The Gila River Indian Community will receive up to $233 million in funding for conservation agreements that will help the tribe and other water users along the Colorado River Basin protect the stability and sustainability of the Colorado River System.

An Idaho federal judge granted a partial win to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in their challenge to a U.S. Department of the Interior land transfer for the expansion of a phosphogypsum plant, saying the agency violated a 1900 federal law that limits the disposal of treaty-ceded lands.

Southern New England, today, is a de facto exception to much of U.S. Indian law and policy, with progress sustained by Indigenous peoples in the region at a bar

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American Indian people know all too well the impact of pandemics on human populations, having barely survived smallpox outbreaks and other diseases tr

UArizona Health Sciences shipped 250 COVID-19 sample collection kits to the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, which has been particularly hard hit by the new coronavirus.

Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.

Misclassification raises fears of hidden health emergencies in one of the country’s most vulnerable populations

The FBI said these rehab groups are not giving the proper care promised to patients and are still receiving federal funds.