Native American Tribes

The unanimous decision came despite opposition from the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. In other news, Utah Valley University hired its first-ever chief safety officer a year after Charlie Kirk's death.

The day of remembrance honors those who were taken from their families and sent to boarding schools. Children were often cut off from their Native cultures, and many experienced abuse and neglect.

The Native American Rights Fund found disparities in voter registration, mail-in ballots, and other stages of voting in Native communities, even 60 years after the Voting Rights Act.

The Hualapai Tribe said hyperscale data centers threaten its sacred water, lands, environment, and way of life. Some of its neighbors are similarly worried about development.

The unanimously passed measure formally documents what Navajos already know — the spiritual and natural significance of where two life-giving rivers converge in northern Arizona's high desert.

Dozens of federally recognized tribes have legal and cultural claims on the Colorado River. Yet those tribes are often left out of negotiations and struggle to access water they're entitled to.

Upper Basin states like Utah worry water could get leased to cities downstream. Tribe members say they want to access a resource that is rightfully theirs.

Larry Morris recounts the 19th-century experience of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos by detailing their interactions with four legendary survivors of a fight with the Arikaras in 1823.

When I received news of Robin Pendery's death from plunging into a crevasse on Mt. Denali, North America’s highest, I was crushed. How could someone so vibrant, so young, so skilled and giving to all who knew her, have perished?

Friday's story about the Weaving Our Stories conference in Blanding has been taken down while we do additional reporting to ensure the story is accurate.