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Tribal Affairs

Posted inTribal Affairs

Searching on their own

Avatar photo by Vanessa G. Sánchez October 26, 2022December 9, 2022

A Navajo-led search and rescue group looks for missing and murdered Indigenous people — going where no one else will

Posted inFeatured

Seven years after a spill turns a river yellow, Navajo farmers still seek justice

Avatar photo by Michael Benanav August 3, 2022August 16, 2022

The 2015 Gold King Mine spill sent a toxic plume through the Navajo Nation. Why isn’t restitution in sight?

Posted inFeatured

‘I could go missing tomorrow’

Avatar photo by Michael Benanav July 7, 2022December 14, 2022

A Navajo woman is walking from Arizona to Washington, D.C., as a call to action for her aunt and thousands of other missing or murdered Indigenous people.

Posted inFeatured, New Mexico's Children, Tribal Affairs

Where have all the children gone?

Avatar photo by Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi December 9, 2021January 12, 2023

Students in the Four Corners have disappeared from attendance rolls. What happened?

Posted inFeatured, Full Archive, Hitting Home, Shiprock, Shiprock Part 3, Tribal Affairs

Education in the rearview mirror

Avatar photo by Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi July 8, 2021July 10, 2022

Living in internet dead zones and sometimes without electricity at home, Indigenous youths in New Mexico and Arizona went to extraordinary lengths to attend virtual classes.

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Tribal Affairs

A broken system

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi, Christine Trudeau and Jourdan Bennett-Begaye June 8, 2021July 10, 2022

From medical health privacy laws to a maze of siloed information systems, a true accounting of COVID-19’s impact on Indian Country is impossible to know.

Posted inFeatured

Fields of green

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ed Williams and Wufei Yu December 21, 2020February 2, 2023

COVID is pushing thousands of Chinese immigrant workers into the marijuana business—sometimes leading to exploitation and labor trafficking

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Gallup, Gallup Part 2, Health, Hitting Home, Tribal Affairs

Forlorn on Route 66

Avatar photo by J. Weston Phippen December 17, 2020July 10, 2022

In Gallup, hit harder by the coronavirus than any place in the state, small business owners feel lucky to just survive

Posted inFeatured, Tribal Affairs

Seeing Red: The Color of the Spirits

by Curtis Ray Benally November 30, 2020January 10, 2023

Images of Native Women honor those who are missing

Posted inChaos and cannabis, Tribal Affairs

Uprooted

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ed Williams and Don J. Usner November 11, 2020July 10, 2022

A police raid near Shiprock has all but ended an illicit cannabis-growing operation

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