PHOENIX — The Gila River Indian Community is threatening to blow up the drought-contingency plan because of efforts it says will undermine its claim to water rights. House Speaker Rusty Bowers ...

His father, the late Rodney Lewis, was general counsel for the Gila River Indian Community and fought for the tribe’s rights to water in the Southwest, eventually securing in 2004 the largest ...

ADOT hosted 25 students and other community members and leaders from the Gila River Indian Community to view and witness part of this bridge removal. “The purpose of this site visit was to show ...

Jicarilla Apache Nation, No. 10-382 (June 13, 2011), litigation compromising the United States" title in land can proceed in the United States" absence as long as an Indian tribe is a party to the ...

"We have to remember, the system, the system failed Emily and has failed so many of our relatives," said Stephen Roe Lewis, governor of the Gila River Indian Community. "We can't let one more ...

Biden issued the historic apology at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona on Oct. 25, 2024, in an emotional speech that brought tears to many in the crowd, describing federal Indian boarding ...

Yaretzi Ortega, a 15-year-old from the Gila River Indian Community who wore the red handprint Saturday, said her parents tried to shelter her, but as she asked questions, she too got “the talk.” ...

who is of the Gila River Indian Community and Navajo Nation. "We usually invite a lot of our dancers who have red regalia." On May 5, members of IWMGW put together medicine bags to give to the ...

Less than two weeks earlier, officer Joshua Briese of the Gila River Indian Community was shot and killed while responding to an unruly party. Briese's father, David, was also a police officer ...

Yaretzi Ortega, a 15-year-old from the Gila River Indian Community who wore the red handprint Saturday, said Native Americans need to speak up every day. It’s a message she understood when she t ...

“He wants to understand why, where’d they go and what happened to them.” Yaretzi Ortega, a 15-year-old from the Gila River Indian Community who wore the red handprint Saturday, said Native Americans ...