Gabriel Pietrorazio

President Biden formally apologized for the U.S. government’s role in running boarding schools for Indigenous children during his first official trip to the Gila River Indian Community on Friday.

The agricultural legacy of Indigenous peoples in Arizona is the focus of a new exhibit at a city-run museum in Phoenix.

Last week, the Bureau of Reclamation inked three historic water conservation agreements in Santa Fe with the Gila River Indian Community, which thinks it can step up to help take some strain off Lake Mead and stabilize the Colorado River Basin. Less than a week later, they’re already breaking ground on two of these projects.

The Bureau of Land Management and Peregrine Fund are set to release four captive-bred California condors into the wild from the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument this Saturday.

Wildlife conservation efforts, in part, criminalized Indigenous customs, but also led to a thriving global black market for wildlife parts. To counteract that illicit industry, a Phoenix nonprofit has been providing an alternative, legal source of feathers for tribal members in Arizona and nationwide.

Darryl Montana is the head chef and a member of Tohono O’odham Nation. He returned to Arizona to lend his talents in helping launch this new eatery after leaving Owamni, an award-winning Indigenous restaurant in Minneapolis founded by Sean Sherman, an Oglala Lakota chef.

The San Carlos Apache Tribal Council signed a resolution this week endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris days before she and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are scheduled to speak at a metro Phoenix rally.

This week, hundreds of Indigenous leaders, activists, organizers, allies and political candidates for local, state and federal races, met for the Native Power Building Summit in Scottsdale. “Land, Culture, Democracy” was this year's theme, and focused on fighting for Indigenous futures.

The White Mesa Mill in Utah is where uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain Mine in Arizona will soon be trucked through the Navajo Nation. But that same facility has received waste from a much farther location, one that is frustrating another tribe.

The Pinyon Plain Mine, near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, is the epicenter of Arizona’s uranium mining debate, especially since it became operational in January. KJZZ News had an opportunity to see the mine for itself from two points of view.