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Tampon shortage spotlights fight against ‘period poverty’

By Cronkite NewsJun 22, 2022

A tombstone of an unknown student that attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School sits on the grounds of the present-day U.S. Army War College. The proposed Truth and Healing Commission would be charged with investigating unmarked grave sites and other abuses of the Indian boarding school system. (File photo by Addison Kliewer/Gaylord News)

Bill advances for Indian boarding schools commission

By Cronkite NewsJun 16, 2022

Despite higher prices for gasoline, air fares and just about everything else, experts said they expect more than 39 million Americans to travel this Memorial Day weekend, an 8.3 percent increase over last year that almost brings holiday travel back to pre-pandemic levels. (File photo by Monserrat Apud/Cronkite News)

Despite record-high gas prices, Memorial Day travel nears pre-pandemic levels

By Cronkite NewsJun 1, 2022

WNBA teams around the country have honored Brittney Griner, who on Saturday will have been detained in Russia for 100 days. The Los Angeles Sparks have her initials and uniform number painted on their court. (Photo by Reece Andrews/Cronkite News)

Brittney Griner: a look back at the 100 days since Mercury star’s detainment in Russia

By Cronkite NewsJun 1, 2022

Navajo Nation Police recruits study inside the training academy in Chinle in this photo from 2021. Officials from the Navajo and other tribes say they have trouble attracting and retaining sufficient numbers of police officers for their forces because of less-competitive pay and benefits. (File photo by Beth Wallis/News21)

Tribal police agencies struggle to attract, maintain officers

By Cronkite NewsMay 27, 2022

Jada Rickert checks her phone while LeKyndra Ouedrago reaches for hair product to style Jada’s hair into twists, May 2022. (Photo by Nicole Shinn/Special for Cronkite News)

CROWN Act banning discrimination against natural Black hair

By Cronkite NewsMay 9, 2022

Last summer, officials with the Resources and Development Committee of the 24th Navajo Nation Council, Bureau of Indian Affairs staff and community members toured the Navajo Nation looking at the impact of drought and overgrazing on the land. (Photo by Nicholas Chischilly)

The toll of climate change

By Cronkite NewsApr 14, 2022

Liberty Wildlife employees examine a hawk in an operating room at the the refugee in south Phoenix on March 4, 2022. (Photo by Troy Hill/Cronkite News)

New study shows nearly half of bald eagles affected by chronic lead poisoning

By Cronkite NewsApr 13, 2022

White Mountain Apache Chairwoman Gwendena Lee-Gatewood, left, and Colorado River Indian Tribes Chairwoman Amelia Flores urged a Senate committee to back water legislation critical to their tribes. (Photo by Reagan Priest/Cronkite News)

Tribal leaders make case for critically needed water projects

By Cronkite NewsMar 24, 2022

A hiker in February 2021 ascends Piestewa Peak, which was renamed to honor Lori Piestewa, a Hopi woman killed while serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq. The peak’s previous name was a slur for Indigenous women, and federal officials now want to rename hundreds of such places, including 67 in Arizona. (File photo by James Paidoussis/Cronkite News)

Arizona ranks high with offensive place names

By Cronkite NewsMar 21, 2022

Students plant broccoli in Garfield Elementary School’s Garden on the Corner in central Phoenix on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The program gives students an opportunity to develop healthier lifelong habits. (Photo by Hope O’Brien/Cronkite News)

Experts target obesity, diet, exercise to combat high cholesterol in youth

By Cronkite NewsMar 17, 2022

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Mystery of the monarchs: Western butterfly populations stage remarkable comeback

By Cronkite NewsMar 1, 2022

The nation is facing one of the worst blood supply shortages in years, according to the American Red Cross. Blood donation centers like this one, run by Arizona nonprofit Vitalant, are putting out desperate calls for donors. (Photo by Genesis Alvarado/Cronkite News)

Blood providers call for donors amid first national blood crisis

By Cronkite NewsFeb 15, 2022

The Pascua Yaqui Tribe got federal funding for a pipeline that will bring water for irrigation to their lands near Tucson, freeing up much-needed drinking water for tribal members’ homes. Here, a worker reconnects an irrigation line in a 2017 photo from Visalia, Calif. (File photo by Jackie Wang/News21)

Tribal officials call for ‘critical’ water infrastructure

By Cronkite NewsFeb 11, 2022

A construction crew member works on the exterior of one of the homes in the subdivision, which will feature different housing styles, including single-family homes and townhomes. (Photo by Madison Thomas/Cronkite News)

200 Pascua Yaqui families getting new homes

By Cronkite NewsFeb 9, 2022

The last time the Super Bowl landed in Arizona was 2015. (File photo by Aimee Cash/Cronkite News)

Move 2023 Super Bowl out of Arizona? That’s what faith leaders want because of voting bill restrictions

By Cronkite NewsFeb 9, 2022

The Cutter Lateral Water Treatment Plant was completed in 2020. It delivers clean water to 1,500 households in eight Navajo communities in New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)

Navajo-Gallup water project projected to serve thousands

By Cronkite NewsJan 28, 2022

Glendale, Arizona; March 14, 2021. Whitehorse throws his hand back as he rides Kent’s Wildride before getting bucked off in round 2. (Photo by Marlee Smith/Cronkite News)

Diné College works to rebuild rodeo program

By Cronkite NewsJan 21, 2022

Selso Villegas accepts the Martin Luther King Community Service Award in January 2017. (Photo by Andy Morales, courtesy of Selso Villegas)

Reducing Native overrepresentation in jails

By Cronkite NewsJan 19, 2022

Second-grader Winona Begaye uploads homework in her family’s vehicle near Piñon. Navajo Nation schools have remained virtual this fall because it’s too dangerous to reopen their doors. To help families with no internet or poor access get online, the Piñon Unified School District outfitted school buses with Wi-Fi. (Photo by Megan Marples/Cronkite News)

Vicious circle: Tribal broadband program hindered

By Cronkite NewsJan 14, 2022

Cahokia guests are greeted with a storefront hosting works by local Indigenous artists. One of the best ways to support Indigenous artists, says Melody Lewis, co-founder of Cahokia, is by buying their art and investing in what they’re doing. (Photo by Ella Ho Ching/Cronkite News)

Cahokia, owned by women, cultivates ‘creative placekeeping’

By Cronkite NewsJan 9, 2022

The Wildcat Den at Chinle High School reopened for the first time in 18 months, welcoming back athletes, fans and community members to the sacred space. (Photo by Gabrielle Ducharme/Cronkite News)

Rez ball tips off, and the healing begins

By Cronkite NewsDec 19, 2021

Some grocery store shelves remain empty because of bottlenecks among the interconnected industries that ship goods around the world. (Photo by Ella Ho Ching/Cronkite News)

Searching for solutions to the global supply chain crisis

By Cronkite NewsDec 10, 2021

Lourdes Pereira stands next to Gov. Doug Ducey on Sept. 1 as he signs House Bill 2705, which prevents schools from banning Native dress at graduation. Pereira three years ago helped change Tucson Unified School District policy that had required special permission to display such regalia. (Photo courtesy of Lourdes Pereira)

Arizona law allows greater cultural expression at graduation

By Cronkite NewsNov 29, 2021

At the center of the Diné College campus near Tsaile is this tribute to corn, a plant with deep philosophical meaning that forms the basis for many Navajo teachings. March 23, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Rosenfield/Cronkite News)

Diné College rodeo program looks to rebuild

By Cronkite NewsNov 20, 2021

It’s important to have a safe space for Native women to talk about the health problems they face, says Nicolle Gonzales, a Navajo nurse-midwife and the founder of Changing Woman Initiative. (File photo by Delia Johnson/Cronkite News)

Navajo woman starts nonprofit to improve maternal health

By Cronkite NewsNov 2, 2021

At least 186 Mexican wolves live in western New Mexico and eastern Arizona, authorities say. The wolves – a rare subspecies of the gray wolf – were all but wiped out by the 1970s. (File photo by Michael Hannan/Cronkite News)

Public can comment on Mexican wolves management

By Cronkite NewsNov 1, 2021

A water utilities crew works to repair a broken section of the Transcanyon Pipeline in Grand Canyon National Park in early 2020. Grand Canyon projects will get more than $60 million for repairs in the first two years of the Great American Outdoors Act. (Photo by E.Foss/National Park Service)

Projects get sizeable cut of outdoors act funds

By Cronkite NewsOct 17, 2021

Featured on the chest, a calendar stick and a warrior’s club signify a new era with the Rising and the Gila River Indian Community, as well as protection to the people. (Photo courtesy of Ashley Orellana/Phoenix Rising)

Sports jersey honors O’odham people

By Cronkite NewsOct 15, 2021

LoVina Louie, the wife of MMIW Bike Run USA organizer Duane Garvais-Lawrence, adds names to the side of the motor home that carried them on the trip. One goal of the trip was to raise $186,090 – representing what they say is the amount of women and children missing – to support MMIW help centers and families they met along the way. (Photo by Diannie Chavez/Cronkite News)

Many hopeful that focus on missing Indigenous persons may pay off

By Cronkite NewsOct 4, 2021

The bison herd on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon has grown too large and is damaging the park’s environment, which is why state and federal wildlife officials are planning a limited hunt as one way to manage the herd (File photo by Kianna Gardner/Cronkite News)

Groups push to ship, not shoot, Grand Canyon bison

By Cronkite NewsSep 25, 2021

Clarissa Yazzie as Princess Leia: “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” Diné Kodi, Obi-Wan Kenobi. T’aa ni t’ei ninahjl’ sih hasin. Artist: Dale Deforest. (Photo by Kelly Richmond/Cronkite News)

Preserving the force of Navajo language

By Cronkite NewsSep 24, 2021

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A poor measure of need

By Cronkite NewsAug 20, 2021

(Illustration by Zach Van Arsdale, News21)

Shawnee language classes move online

By Cronkite NewsAug 17, 2021

Chinook salmon, the Klamath River’s main resource, have been harmed by climate change and a dam upstream, according to Sammy Gensaw, director of Ancestral Guard, which teaches Indigenous youth how to farm as well as fish. (Photo by Beth Wallis/News21)

Yurok Tribe grows solutions in soil of crises

By Cronkite NewsAug 8, 2021

A Department of Energy researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory studies the coronavirus in this photo from June 2020. Since then, the COVID-19 virus has mutated into several variants and the latest, the delta variant, has been called the “fastest and fittest” for its high transmissibility rate. (Photo by Genevieve Martin/U.S. Department of Energy)

What makes the COVID-19 variant different, and dangerous

By Cronkite NewsAug 3, 2021

Navajo Nation Police recruits stretch after running on sand dunes for physical training in Chinle, Arizona, on the reservation. A recent report said the 200-member department needs hundreds more officers to do its job. (Photo by Beth Wallis/ News21)

After COVID setbacks, tribal police chief looks forward

By Cronkite NewsJul 28, 2021

When COVID-19 struck the Navajo Nation last year, Zoel Zohnnie realized elders and others were unable to access water stations. So he purchased a water tank and started hauling water to them. (Photo courtesy of MJ Harrison)

A water warrior

By Cronkite NewsJul 21, 2021

Jonathan Nez and 13-year-old son at computer. Today, I accompanied my 13-year-old son, Christopher, as he received his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Gallup Indian Medical Center vaccination site. This is an opportunity for families to receive the vaccine together, if adults have not done so already,” Nez said. “The vaccines are effective and they are key to overcoming this pandemic. Community immunity is our goal here on the Navajo Nation. Please continue to wear masks, get vaccinated, practice social distancing, wash your hands often, and avoid large in-person gatherings.” May 13, 2021. Photo courtesy of Navajo Nation.

Navajo confident about reopening amid delta variant spreading

By Cronkite NewsJul 21, 2021

Leticia and Vicente Garcia look at family photos at their home in Phoenix on June 29, 2021. They became advocates for better maternal health care after their 23-year-old daughter died during childbirth in 2018. (Photo by Alberto Mariani/Cronkite News)

Arizona hospitals collaborate to fight maternal mortality

By Cronkite NewsJul 12, 2021

Children at Havasupai Indian School in Cataract Canyon, Arizona, in 1901. (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress)

Enduring trauma

By Cronkite NewsJul 10, 2021

Eagle feathers and dried sage in a seashell are among the sacred items that Andrea Klimas, clinical director at Native American Connections, brings to facilitate talking circles. Incorporating Indigenous practices like talking circles into health care treatment isn’t new but has grown in significance during the pandemic, largely because of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Native communities. (Photo by Gianluca D’Elia/Cronkite News)

Shipping sage and praying on Zoom

By Cronkite NewsJul 4, 2021

Maricopa County averages 110 days above 100 degrees Fahrenheit a year, and it recorded 119 heat-caused deaths in 2018, according to the Maricopa County Department of Public Health. (Photo by Greg Macelroy | Cronkite News)

Heat stroke vs. heat exhaustion

By Cronkite NewsJul 1, 2021

In this April 5, 2020, file photo, a man checks his mobile phone along the Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. As governments around the world consider how to monitor new coronavirus outbreaks while reopening their societies, many are starting to bet on smartphone apps to help stanch the pandemic. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

COVID-19 and 'brain fog'

By Cronkite NewsJun 26, 2021

Korene Atene, a certified nursing assistant with the Monument Valley Health Center, gets information from people lined up to get tested for COVID-19 outside of the center in Oljato-Monument Valley, San Juan County, on Thursday, April 16, 2020. The Navajo Nation has one of the highest per capita COVID-19 infection rates in the country. (Photo by Kristin Murphy, Deseret News via AP)

Navajo Nation leery of Delta variant

By Cronkite NewsJun 24, 2021

A sunrise seen from Hopi Point on the South Rim in 2018 – when visitors spent $1.8 billion at national parks in Arizona. Spending plummeted last year, along with visitors, but numbers are starting to turn around. (Photo by M Quinn, National Park Service/Creative Commons)

National park visitors – and money – are coming back

By Cronkite NewsJun 23, 2021

Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris Jr. speaks during the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States oversight hearing on destruction at the border wall on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (Photo courtesy of House Committee on Natural Resources: Democrats)

Tribal leaders bring litany of needs to hearing

By Cronkite NewsJun 22, 2021

Despite efforts to save desert plants that were removed during the construction of the wall, not all those transplanted survived. Saguaro cactus, such as the one pictured, don’t usually start growing arms until they are at least 100 years old. (Photo by Isaac Stone Simonelli/Cronkite Borderlands Project)

Unfinished border barriers harm environment

By Cronkite NewsJun 17, 2021

The Navajo Generating Station, once the largest coal-burning plant in the West, closed in 2019 when coal was no longer economically feasible fuel. It was the only client of the nearby Kayenta mine, which also closed. (Photo by Bill Morrow, Creative Commons)

How to transition from coal is the question

By Cronkite NewsJun 16, 2021

The cancellation of the 2020 Native American Basketball Invitational was a blow to a community that benefited from the event thanks to scholarships and exposure. (File photo by Nate Fain/Cronkite News)

Keeping girls in the game

By Cronkite NewsJun 13, 2021

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