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Bluff celebrates with second annual Founders Day and Frybread Festival

Events reflect heritage and creative uses of frybread

DATE: Apr 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Patchwork health care for reservation inmates raises concern

ALBUQUERQUE – At a tribal jail in Washington state, an inmate with a broken leg banged on his cell door, screaming for pain medication, only to be denied. Hundreds of miles away, ...

DATE: Mar 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Photo: Pueblo Feast Day

DATE: Mar 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Zinke tells tribal leaders in Arizona he’ll fight opioids

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told tribal leaders in the Phoenix area on Monday that federal law enforcement will work with them to fight distribution of opioid drug...

DATE: Mar 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Protecting Native American artifacts at Lake Nighthorse

Recreation brings the threat of looting, vandalism

DATE: Mar 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Navajo artist to open mixed media exhibit at The Farm Bistro

Navajo artist Venaya Yazzie hopes to use an art exhibit at The Farm Bistro in Cortez to educate viewers on Native American beliefs. Yazzie, a graduate of the Institute of Amer...

DATE: Mar 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Program boosts college readiness for Native American students in Southwest Colorado

AIMS provides students with connection and support

DATE: Feb 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Airport agents to get training after Native church’s lawsuit

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A wooden box carried an eagle feather and bone whistle, a gourd rattle and a feather fan — items that carry spiritual energy and are used in Native American religious cere...

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Talk about town: Miss Hozhoni Pageant name changes

The Miss Hozhoni Pageant, part of the annual monthlong Hozhoni Days that celebrates the variety of cultures at Fort Lewis College, is getting a slight name change, the college’s newspaper re...

DATE: Feb 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tribes united on restoring Bears Ears National Monument during testimony to Congress

During a U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources hearing Tuesday in Washington, D.C., local Native American tribes voiced unanimous opposition to a bill that replaces Bears Ears National M...

DATE: Feb 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News