Tag: Deb Haaland
Interior: $580M headed to 15 tribes to fulfill water rights
Fifteen Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million in federal money this year for water rights settlements, the Biden...
Native Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools
During seventh grade at Phoenix Indian School, Pershlie Ami signed up to go on what the school called an “outing” — promoted...
Environmentalists want jaguars reintroduced to U.S. Southwest
An environmental group on Monday petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help reintroduce the jaguar to the Southwest, where it...
Protections sought for coyotes in Mexican wolf territory
Environmentalists want the U.S. government to list coyotes as endangered in parts of Arizona and New Mexico, where the rarest subspecies of...
Interior Dept. to require body cams for law enforcement
The U.S. Interior Department on Monday launched a set of new policies that would require thousands of law enforcement officers to wear...
In Arizona, worry about access to Colorado River water
Robbie Woodhouse's grandfather began nearly a century of family farming along the Gila River near Yuma in the middle 1920s when he...
Marilynn Malerba sworn in as 1st Native American in U.S. Treasurer...
Mohegan Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba was sworn in Monday as the Treasurer of the United States, the first Native American to hold...
U.S. panel to focus on Native American missing, slain cases
Nearly 40 law enforcement officials, tribal leaders, social workers, and survivors of violence have been named to a federal commission tasked with...
Sen. Jamescita Peshlakai resigns, moves to Interior Department
The first Native American woman elected to Arizona’s Senate has resigned to take a position with the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Rep. Ruben Gallego praises controversial restoration of Bears Ears Monument
Congressman Ruben Gallego praised the Biden Administration for restoring the conservation protections of Bears Ears Monument. Located in Utah, the monument's size...
