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In this photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, Jason Nez, center, talks to wildland fire personnel working a blaze in northern Arizona in 2021. Nez is a Navajo archaeologist and firefighter who advises fire officials on how to protect archaeological resources. (Paul Dawson/U.S. Forest Service via AP)
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Fires sweep land rich with ancient sites, artifacts

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterJun 20, 2022
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland at the Interior Department's press conference on its federal boarding school investigation in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)
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US reckoning with role in boarding schools

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterMay 12, 2022
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visits the Grand Junction Air Center Complex on Friday to discuss her agency's response to wildfires and the Bureau of Land Management headquarters move to Grand Junction on Friday, July 23, 2021, in Grand Junction, Colo. (McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)
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US panel to focus on Native missing, slain cases

By Susan Montoya Bryan, AP Writer and Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterMay 5, 2022
In this July 31, 2021 photo, a boat cruises along Lake Powell near Page, Ariz. The elevation of Lake Powell fell below 3,525 feet (1,075 meters), a record low that surpasses a critical threshold at which officials have long warned signals their ability to general hydropower is in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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In drought-stricken West, officials weigh emergency actions

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterApr 14, 2022
Carmen Briones holds a photo of her and her husband, Riley Briones Jr., on Feb. 22, 2022, in Anthem, Arizona. Riley Briones' attorneys are asking a federal appeals court for another chance to argue his sentence should be cut short based on improvements he's made behind bars since being convicted in the 1994 death of Brian Patrick Lindsay when Briones was 17. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
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Native juvenile lifer seeks reprieve amid push for leniency

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterApr 11, 2022
In a Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018 file photo, a fence surrounds Havasupai Elementary School in Havasupai, Ariz. A lawsuit that accuses the federal government of failing to adequately provide for students on a small, isolated reservation in Arizona is set to go to trial in November. The lawsuit filed in 2017 seeks systematic reforms of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education, an agency that oversees more than 180 schools in nearly two dozen states but directly operates less than one-third of them.(Alden Woods/The Arizona Republic via AP,File)
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Federal court revives claim in Havasupai education case

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterMar 24, 2022
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Energy grants for tribes aimed at aiding vast power needs

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterMar 22, 2022
This June 6, 2019, file photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington. Multiple published reports say that the U.S. government has launched a national-security review of the China-owned video app TikTok, popular with millions of U.S. teens and young adults. Several senators have recently noted concerns about censorship and data collection on TikTok. The Treasury Department, which houses CFIUS, says it does not comment on specific cases. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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Judge sides with Treasury in tribes' COVID relief case

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterJan 31, 2022
The Oglala Sioux Tribe has been operating under a shelter at home ordinance since March 2020. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember)
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Tribal housing grants benefit 74 tribes

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterJan 19, 2022
Grand Canyon. (Photo by Mark, Creative Commons)
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Uranium not high in water samples around Grand Canyon

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterDec 9, 2021
Navajo Nation Police Chief Phillip Francisco at his desk in Window Rock. He hopes additional federal funding will provide an opportunity for the department’s “renaissance.” (Photo by Beth Wallis/News21)
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Navajo police chief leaves for same job in hometown

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterDec 1, 2021
The Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona covers 2,532 square miles and is surrounded by the vast Navajo Nation Reservation. Distance from Veterans Affairs services and lack of transportation plague many Native American veterans. (Photo by Madeline Ackley/Cronkite News)
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Hopi at crossroads of maintaining language for elected posts

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterNov 14, 2021
Indigenous and environmental activists protest in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. President Joe Biden on Friday issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples Day, lending the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native peoples. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterOct 12, 2021
The Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona covers 2,532 square miles and is surrounded by the vast Navajo Nation Reservation. Distance from Veterans Affairs services and lack of transportation plague many Native American veterans. (Photo by Madeline Ackley/Cronkite News)
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Election for Hopi chairman to be rematch

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 15, 2021
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Tribe becomes key water player

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterJul 7, 2021
In this July 21, 2015, file photo, Martha Johnson turns in her ballot at the Nenahnezad Chapter House in Fruitland, N.M., during the Navajo Nation's referendum election. Native American voting rights advocates are cautioning against states moving to mail-in ballots without opportunities for tribal members to vote safely in person. The Native American Rights Fund released a wide-ranging report on voting rights Thursday, June 4, 2020. In it, the group outlined the challenges that could arise as states move to rely more heavily on mail-in ballots. (Jon Austria/The Daily Times via AP, File)
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Tribes say Supreme Court ruling hurts voting access

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterJul 6, 2021
FILE - In this April 22, 2021, file photo, Bryan Newland, left, speaks with Navajo Nation Council Delegate Daniel Tso in Window Rock, Ariz. President Joe Biden's nominee to oversee Indigenous affairs at the Interior Department said Wednesday, June 9, 2021, that he won't impede tribes as they seek to improve infrastructure, public safety and the economy on their lands. Newland appeared before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee where he received widespread support to become assistant secretary for Indian Affairs. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca, File)
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Nominee to oversee Indigenous affairs has support

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterJun 9, 2021
FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2018 file photo, Mildred James of Sanders, Ariz., shows off her "I Voted" sticker as she waits for results of the Navajo Nation presidential primary election to be revealed in Window Rock, Ariz. The Navajo Nation is suing Arizona counties over what it says were unequal opportunities for tribal members to correct signature deficiencies on early ballots in Arizona's general election. The tribe is asking a federal judge in a lawsuit filed this week to allow more than 100 Navajos to make the fixes. The request has the potential to delay the state's certification of ballots, scheduled for Dec. 3. (AP Photo/Cayla Nimmo, File)
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Navajos say new Arizona restrictions will complicate voting

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterMay 18, 2021
"Thank you @FLOTUS for visiting Hunters Point Boarding School and speaking with our Diné youth about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our youth are strong and resilient and we will overcome COVID-19 together! Ahe’hee’" (Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez via Twitter)
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Navajo students describe pandemic struggles to Jill Biden

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterApr 23, 2021
Jill Biden visits the Navajo Nation, April 22, 2021. (Photo courtesy of Navajo Nation)
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Jill Biden hears from Navajo women on needs, priorities

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterApr 22, 2021
This June 15, 2015, file photo shows in the distance, part of the Resolution Copper Mining land-swap project in Superior, Ariz. A group of Apaches who have tried for years to reverse a land swap in Arizona that will make way for one of the largest and deepest copper mines in the U.S. sued the federal government Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Apache Stronghold argues in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona that the U.S. Forest Service cannot legally transfer land to international mining company Rio Tinto in exchange for eight parcels the company owns around Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Lawmakers discuss bill trying to save Oak Flat

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterApr 13, 2021
Raymond Clark displays a photo of a geographic feature known as the "Praying Mountain" outside his home in Teesto, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation, on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Teesto workers, health representatives, volunteers and neighbors keep close tabs on another to ensure the most vulnerable citizens get the help they need. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
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Navajo community steps up for its vulnerable

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterMar 14, 2021
Activists have been protesting against the Resolution Copper mine at Oak Flat for years, including this 2015 protest in Washington. Opponents of the mine now worry that the Trump administration has fast-tracked the mine’s final environmental impact statement – a claim both the mine and the U.S. Forest Service deny. (File photo by Jamie Cochran/Cronkite News)
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USDA puts brakes on Oak Flat transfer - for now

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterMar 1, 2021
This June 15, 2015, file photo shows in the distance, part of the Resolution Copper Mining land-swap project in Superior, Ariz. A group of Apaches who have tried for years to reverse a land swap in Arizona that will make way for one of the largest and deepest copper mines in the U.S. sued the federal government Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Apache Stronghold argues in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona that the U.S. Forest Service cannot legally transfer land to international mining company Rio Tinto in exchange for eight parcels the company owns around Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Court rules against Apaches in bid to halt proposed mine

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterFeb 12, 2021
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Death penalty: 'Eye for an eye' or precedent that gives the US government the final say

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterAug 24, 2020
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First FBI poster in Navajo language seeks info on homicide

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterApr 14, 2020
In this photo taken Saturday, April 4, 2020, moderator Whitney Rencountre, a Crow Creek Dakota tribal member, is seen on a screen from Rapid City, S.D., as he talks with a dancer during a live-streamed powwow. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Beautiful powwow there

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterApr 12, 2020
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Incoming Navajo Lawmakers Hear Restructuring Plans

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 12, 2018
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Navajo politics turn sour over move to cut council

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 13, 2018
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Hopi hotel showcases Arizona tribe’s culture

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 13, 2018
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Feds acknowledge withholding permits for Arizona resort

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 12, 2018
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Grand Canyon plan would upgrade tribal housing

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 13, 2018
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Chevron donates land for code talkers museum

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 12, 2018
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EPA to rebuild uranium- contaminated Navajo homes

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 12, 2018
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Tribes press government to clean up nuclear waste

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 12, 2018
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Navajos want to run river trips at Grand Canyon

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 12, 2018
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Feds reconsider Navajo power line decision

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 12, 2018
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Gas company, Navajos reach deal on pipeline pay

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 12, 2018
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Longtime gaming holdout Navajos open tribal casino

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterSep 12, 2018