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Cronkite News: Museum continues to move slowly on repatriation (December 3, 2024)
Arizona State Museum is still not in compliance with NAGPRA, more than three decades after repatriation became the law. 
Cronkite News: Hearing confronts crisis of missing and murdered relatives (December 2, 2024)
Despite grants and numerous programs to help mitigate the issue, cases of missing or murdered Indigenous women continue at relatively high rates. 
Cronkite News: Winter surge of COVID-19 impacts Indigenous communities (November 26, 2024)
As COVID-19 is expected to surge this winter, communities across the Southwest face rising hospitalizations and new, resilient variants. 
Cronkite News: Donald Trump’s Defense pick faces scrutiny in U.S. Senate (November 19, 2024)
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) is among the combat veterans and Democrats expressing deep skepticism at Donald Trump’s choice of a Defense secretary with no national security experience. 
For the first time, Latino and Indigenous populations in California will have their health challenges and needs documented in a way that reflects and serves their communities.
Cronkite News: Native youth attend second annual Fiesta Bowl football clinic (November 12, 2024)
“Especially for my Nez Perce people, I want to make them proud as much as possible,” said Xavier Guillory of Arizona State University. 
Donald Trump made mass deportations one of his signature campaign promises despite lack of national support for the controversial idea.
Cronkite News: Native youth lead ride to the polls on Election Day (November 6, 2024)
Arizona was one of the last states to allow voting rights for Native people. 
Cronkite News: Voters on Navajo Nation encounter problems on Election Day (November 6, 2024)
There has been a history of voting complications within Native communities in Arizona, and 2024 was no different. 
Cronkite News: ‘Native voters can and will decide this election’ (November 5, 2024)
Native people have long felt like politicians overlook them, but both parties are seeking the Native vote more than ever before. 
Cronkite News: Tribal governments responsible for orphaned oil and gas wells (November 1, 2024)
When the ownership of abandoned oil or gas wells is untraceable, responsibility falls to federal, local and tribal governments. 
Cronkite News: Senate candidates battle for youth vote in Arizona (October 30, 2024)
With just a week to go until Election Day, all eyes remain on the swing state of Arizona. 
Cronkite News: President Biden apologizes for Indian boarding school era (October 29, 2024)
“The federal government has never formally apologized, until today,” President Joe Biden said during a historic visit to the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. 
Cronkite News: Health care at stake in presidential election (October 24, 2024)
The Affordable Care Act, which permanently authorized the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, is once again a subject of debate in the 2024 presidential race. 
Cronkite News: Experts examine climate crisis and cancer disparities (October 23, 2024)
Indigenous communities across the Southwest face adversities that stem from historical marginalization. 
Cronkite News: Community comes together for Indigenous Peoples Day (October 22, 2024)
“Indigenous Peoples Day is a day to embrace all Indigenous people everywhere,” said Deeanna Talley, a singer who goes by Nanibaah. 
Cronkite News: Indian Country diabetes funding set to expire yet again (October 21, 2024)
Federal funding expires at the end of the year for a program that has reduced diabetes among Native people. 
Cronkite News: Miss Navajo Nation merges traditional and modern culture (October 16, 2024)
The Miss Navajo Nation pageant celebrates tribal culture and tradition, and imbues the winner as a role model on the largest reservation in the U.S. 
Cronkite News: Tribes go to Congress in long-running fight for water rights (October 15, 2024)
Seven states that rely on the Colorado River each got a cut of water under a deal struck over a century ago – a deal that excluded tribal nations. 
The Gila River Indian Community received nearly $6 million in federal funds to create a first-of-its kind renewable energy project.
Cronkite News: Native rodeo a tradition at Arizona State Fair (October 11, 2024)
The Native American Rodeo is part of the rich tradition of the Arizona State Fair, with spectators and competitors from tribal nations across the country. 
Uranium mining has been a point of contention for Southwest tribal nations for decades.
Cronkite News: Native people continue to face obstacles at the polls (October 7, 2024)
Ahead of the 2024 election, organizations across Arizona are ramping up efforts to register Native voters and address challenges in getting to the polls. 
Cronkite News: Key Democratic lawmaker plans to leave Congress (October 2, 2024)
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona) is the highest-ranking Democrat on the committee with jurisdiction over Indian issues. 
Cronkite News: Navajo Nation pushes for passage of radiation compensation bill (September 30, 2024)
People exposed to radiation from atomic bomb tests and uranium mines rallied at the U.S. Capitol to demand action on a stalled compensation program. 
Cronkite News: Navajo Nation rallies at U.S. Capitol for radiation compensation (September 24, 2024)
Survivors of nuclear testing and uranium mines are ramping up pressure on Congress to reauthorize a federal compensation program that expired in June. 
Cronkite News: Native fish rebounds with help of tribal partnership (September 5, 2024)
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland declared that Arizona’s state fish, the Apache trout, will be removed from the endangered species list. 
Cronkite News: Arizona group puts abortion access on the ballot (September 4, 2024)
Arizona is the only state that cuts off abortion access at 15 weeks, a restriction that advocates are hoping to ease. 
Cronkite News: Judicial nominee adds to diversity of federal bench (September 3, 2024)
According to the White House, 37 of 205 judges nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the U.S. Senate have been Asian American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. 
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has directed agents to stop discarding personal belongings of migrants following criticism of the government’s practices.
Democrats put a bright spotlight on Ruben Gallego at their national convention, underscoring the importance of his campaign for an open U.S. Senate seat in Arizona.
Cronkite News: Street sports on display during Olympics in Paris (August 15, 2024)
Hosting the Olympics gives any city a chance to show itself off to the world. 
Cronkite News: Breakdancing debuts at 2024 Olympic games in Paris (August 9, 2024)
Snoop Dogg isn’t the only one looking forward to breaking’s debut at the 2024 Olympics. 
Cronkite News: Undocumented migrants seek voice in elections (August 8, 2024)
Migrant communities have much on the line in the 2024 elections — even if many cannot cast a ballot due to citizenship status. 
Of the contenders Vice President Kamala Harris is vetting as a possible running mate, Mark Kelly is the only one who’s been to space. Is he the right stuff for the nation?
Amid the fierce competition and colorful pageantry of the largest all-Native basketball tournament in North America, some numbers stood out.
Skateboarding is thriving in Native communities, with many participants using it to showcase their tribal culture.
From 1819 until 1969, hundreds of thousands of Native children were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to boarding schools.
“Just because a scientist says something doesn’t mean it’s true,” a first-term Republican lawmaker said.
“Indigenous communities and Native communities do not publicly humiliate their elders the way the media has,” said April Ignacio from the Tohono O’odham Nation.
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