Tagged With "Pima County, Arizona"

“Many new voters are to some extent tired of both parties, and a concern in this election is that they don’t believe their vote will make a difference.” ILLUSTRATION BY SURFUPVECTOR/ADOBE STOCK Author: To read Lourdes Medrano's article, please click here. In the early months of 2022, Masavi Perea counted the days until he could register to vote. Being able to cast a ballot was a major reason why the Mexico native applied for U.S. citizenship as soon as he became eligible. “I feel that my...

Photo, left: September 30 protest at Barona reservation in Lakesid e Author: To read Miriam Raferty's article, please click here. Members of the Barona band of Mission Indians and other tribal nations have joined a fight aiming to stop the proposed Sandy Valley lithium mine in Arizona and proposed lithium mining at the Salton Sea in California that could adversely impact Native Americans. Local activist Bobby Wallace led a local contingency of tribal members who traveled in late September to...

Author; To read the Associated Press article, please click here. The federal government is demanding the state remove double-stacked shipping containers placed to fill gaps in the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying they are unauthorized and violate U.S. law. The Cocopah Indian Tribe in southwestern Arizona welcomed the call to take down the containers in the latest rift between the Biden administration and Republican-led border states over how to prevent illegal border crossings. The...

SHARON CHISCHILLY/HIGH COUNTRY NEWS AND PROPUBLICA To read more of Anna V. Smith, Mark Olalde, and Umar Farooq's article, please click here. The Navajo Nation has for years been locked in contentious negotiations with the state of Arizona over water. With the tribe’s claims not yet settled, the water sources it can access are limited. The hospital tried tapping an aquifer, but the water was too salty to use. If it could reach an agreement with the state, the tribe would have other options,...

U.S. District Court of Arizona (Photo/LinkedIn) To read more of the Native News Online Staff's article, please click here. On Thursday, September 14, 2023, U.S. District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton in Phoenix ruled in favor of the Tohono O’odham Nation, the Gila River Indian Community and Native youth against a voter suppression law requiring proof of a physical address. Considering more than 40,000 homes on Indian reservations across Arizona do not have physical addresses, the decision is...

Robert Mesta, a member of Arizona’s Pascua Yaqui tribe, is the coordinator of the Liberty Wildlife Non-Eagle Feather Repository in Phoenix. Credit: Rebecca L. Rhoades To read more of Rebecca L. Rhoades' article, please click here. In a small room tucked away in the back of an Arizona-based wildlife rehabilitation center, Robert Mesta sits surrounded by displays of feathers of all sizes and colors, taxidermied birds and Native American implements crafted from feathers. A stack of papers rests...

In January, I announced the “Weave and Cleave Movement,” defining it as The Faithful City (TFC)’s social and cultural movement that invites every human being and all sectors to come alongside, where everyone experiences being connected before being corrected, sharing struggles in compassion, and raising hope and resilience for the future journey altogether. The second annual Weave and Cleave Conference, which I organized with Marcia Stanton, the founder of the Arizona ACEs Consortium, was...

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