1. News
  2. Indigenous Affairs
  3. Native American

Native American

Tribal members and supporters gather in front of the construction line to wave down O'odham runners coming from Sonora ahead of a cross-border ceremony at Quitobaquito Springs on Sept. 27, 2020.

NPS closes route to Quitobaquito Springs

Sep 29, 2020 Closure comes a day after O'odham leaders held a cross-border ceremony at the spring.
A screenshot from a Facebook Live video voting advocates hosted Sept. 28, 2020, to answer Native American Arizonans' questions about voting.

Voting advocates answer questions in virtual town hall geared for Native Americans

Sep 29, 2020 The panel of experts gave presentations that addressed historical and modern voting barriers for Native Americans.
Deer dancer statue outside of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe's administration building.

Campaign Legal Center to represent Pascua Yaqui Tribe in early voting site dispute with county

Sep 25, 2020 The tribe is taking the next step to get the Pima County Recorder's Office to reinstate an early voting site it closed in 2018.

Governor says Indigenous Peoples' Day to be celebrated in 2020

Sep 23, 2020 Gov. Doug Ducey signed a proclamation recognizing the 'historic injustices suffered by Indigenous people.'
Demonstrators struggle as National Park Service officers and Border Patrol agents try to pull people from a fallen human chain during a demonstration at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on Sept. 21, 2020.

Stand off with Border Patrol, National Park Service ends in scuffle with Indigenous-led demonstrators

Sep 22, 2020 O'odham organizers and their supporters stopped construction for over five hours at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
A sign instructs Pima County voters casting their ballots on primary election day, Aug. 4, 2020.

Registering to vote online without traditional addresses, plus codes

Sep 22, 2020 The change increases online registration access for rural and tribal voters.
An envelope containing Pima County's vote-by-mail ballot.

Pima Board of Supervisors supports Pascua Yaqui early voting site

Sep 15, 2020 The board calls on the Pima County Recorder's Office to enact the changes authorized in the resolution it passed.
A Hia-Ced O'odham protester sits inside a vehicle to block construction on a stretch of border wall going up in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on Sept. 9, 2020.

Indigenous activists arrested in demonstration against border wall construction near Quitobaquito Springs

Sep 10, 2020 Two O'odham protesters were arrested for impeding construction in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
A Census Bureau plan to move up the deadline to end “enumeration,” the process of counting U.S. residents, from Oct. 31 to Sept. 30 was put on hold by a federal judge. Critics, including the Navajo and Gila River tribes, had sued to block the move, which they said would lead to an undercount, particularly for minority communities.

Judge halts plan to end Census early, as Arizona, tribal responses lag

Sep 8, 2020 The order said plaintiffs in the case had raised "serious questions" about the bureau's plan to stop counting.
Old Main on the University of Arizona campus.

New UA appointment tasked with Native American student achievement

Sep 4, 2020 Nathan Levi Esquerra will be the first to fill the new role.
Cracked mud flats appear on the surface of Quitobaquito pond on July 18, 2020.

Report highlights biodiversity loss at Quitobaquito during border wall construction

Sep 1, 2020 Borderland scientists say that with all the noise "neither the birds nor the bird watchers want to be at Quitobaquito right now."
Mission San Xavier del Bac.

GoFundMe campaign raises more than $20,000 for students at San Xavier Mission School

Aug 31, 2020 The money will be used to buy laptops for students in the Tohono O'odham Nation doing virtual learning.
A Pima County vote-by-mail envelope.

Navajo Nation residents sue Arizona over early ballot requirements

Aug 27, 2020 Six members of the Navajo Nation want a change in Arizona election law.
An Indigenous demonstrator shakes a rattle during the early morning protest in Coolidge on Aug. 26, 2020.

Indigenous activists protest wall contractor in Coolidge

Aug 26, 2020 Demonstrators gathered at Stinger Bridge & Iron to decry border wall construction across ancestral Indigenous border land.
The radio station in the Pascua Yaqui Tribe's reservation, which formerly housed the tribe's early voting site.

Pascua Yaqui Tribe continues effort to restore former early voting site

Aug 20, 2020 The site established in 2010 was closed down by the Pima County Recorder's Office about a month before the 2018 primary.
Arizona National Guard service member directs visitor traffic at COVID-19 testing site in Tonalea, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation May 19, 2020.

Stay-at-home order lifted as Navajo Nation starts reopening

Aug 18, 2020 Much of the Navajo Nation has been closed since March as the coronavirus swept through the reservation.

Selected Archive Filters

Indigenous Affairs
Back to Top
AZPM is a service of the University of Arizona and our broadcast stations are licensed to the Arizona Board of Regents who hold the trademarks for Arizona Public Media and AZPM. We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples.
The University of Arizona