THE NAVAJO NATION — When Summer Brown lived in Phoenix, she had no problem finding fresh produce. If the Sprouts supermarket near her home didn’t have what she was looking for, she would just drive... Read Original Story
The Navajo Nation, along with a committee of sheep and cattle ranchers in the Western Navajo Agency, issued formal letters opposing the latest proposal by a Phoenix developer to construct a series of... Read Original Story
Historically Navajos have lived off the land. But decades of assimilation, forced relocation and dependence on federal food distribution programs changed that.
Navajo farmer Tyrone Thompson is on a... Read Original Story
Uranium has a deadly legacy in the Grand Canyon region, and that's one reason the U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill that includes a permanent ban on new uranium mines in... Read Original Story
In southeast Utah, nerves are frayed over a pile of radioactive material parked 5,000 miles (8,000 km) away in Estonia. Regulators are weighing weather a local uranium company can import the material... Read Original Story
That Navajo birthing tradition, the one where a newborn’s umbilical cord is buried on ancestral land so that the child will always be tethered to home and lured back, was given a slightly different... Read Original Story
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday is set to unilaterally weaken one of the nation’s bedrock conservation laws, the National Environmental Policy Act, limiting public review of federal... Read Original Story
The Trump administration’s Interior Department has long professed turning an open ear to locally elected officials when it comes to land-use decisions.
That consideration, however, does not appear... Read Original Story
