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A Nevada tribe is gearing up for a different kind of fight against the U.S. government as it tries to build more public support for protecting Native American sacred sites.
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It's back to work for construction crews that are clearing land and building access roads for a $10 billion project that the Biden administration describes as an important part of the nation's transition to renewable energy.
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Work on a $10 billion l renewable energy project has come to a halt in Arizona. Native American tribes say the government ignored concerns about the effects the SunZia transmission line will have on religious and cultural sites.
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The Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona is blasting the decision by the U.S. Attorney’s Office not to prosecute Border Patrol agents who shot and killed a member of the tribe after tribal police summoned them.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a plan to cleanup a Superfund mine site on the Tohono O’odham Nation that's contaminated the tribe's drinking water with uranium and other pollutants.
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The FBI and Tohono O’odham Nation police are investigating the fatal shooting of a tribal member by U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona.
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The Tucson City Council unanimously approved a proposal to give more than 10 acres of city land at the base of Sentinel Peak to the tribe. The Hohokam, the ancestors of the Tohono O'odham, grew crops and thrived for more than 4,500 years at the peak.
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The Tohono O’odham Nation and the Gila River Indian Community argue the that requirements will disenfranchise Native voters as it will leave many tribal members unable to register to vote.
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Legislation was introduced today to protect one of the most culturally significant and ecologically fragile landscapes in the Southwest. The Great Bend of the Gila Conservation Act will establish a 330,000-acre conservation area, as well as the 47,000-acre Palo Verde National Conservation Area and nearly 60,000-acres of new wilderness in the Sonoran Desert.
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A lightning-caused wildfire burning in southern Arizona southwest of Tucson forced evacuations of a small community on the Tohono O’odham Nation Friday. The Contreras Fire burned four buildings at the Kitt Peak National Observatory.