San Juan County’s Navajo population has lived for decades with a minority white government. This election could change that.
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See what a tech production surge means for Tesla workers
With few housing options in Storey County, Nevada, new employees are finding alternative living situations.
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The rising risks of the West’s latest gas boom
An explosion in suburban Colorado raises questions on safety and accountability.
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The lone punk rocker of Paonia
A musician finds a home among a small town’s orchards and fields.
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5 obstacles for Native voters in the November midterms
Native Americans have low participation rates in federal and state elections, but the problem doesn’t lay with political passivism.
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Native-owned financial institutions battle credit deserts
In rural areas without access to banking, tribal enterprises are helping fill gaps.
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Can a California town move back from the sea?
Imperial Beach considers the unthinkable: a retreat from nature.
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Ed Marston, remembered
Thoughts on HCN’s former publisher from people whose lives he impacted.
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Ed Marston’s fierce love transformed the West
How the man who ‘just wanted to write’ created an institution.
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¿Puede una ciudad de California replegarse para cederle paso al mar?
Imperial Beach considera lo impensable: emprender retirada a causa de la naturaleza.
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Tribal members bear the cost of ending blood quantum certificates
The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ move to abruptly end its longstanding ‘policy’ is disingenuous.
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Indian Health Service provider vacancies a ‘never-ending cycle’
A new report reveals that chronic understaffing at the Indian Health Service denies patients quality care.
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Why don’t anti-Indian groups count as hate groups?
The current understanding of ‘hate groups’ excludes those who undermine tribal rights and sovereignty.
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We traveled 2,000 miles to save Chaco Canyon
Pueblo historic sites face oil and gas development on unprotected public lands.
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Activists want to remove Seattle’s iconic totem poles
Opponents say the art fixtures misrepresent the local Native community.
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Where are the Indigenous children who never came home?
An untold number of students at Carlisle Indian School disappeared. Tribal nations raise the stakes in search of answers.
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The deadly consequences of Christian ‘faith-healers’
A new film explores a fringe sect’s concept of freedom and the child deaths caused by it.
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Students explore nature in densely built Los Angeles
Educators hope this elementary school will foster a commitment to science and conservation.
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The U.S. has become a nation of suburbs
In the West and elsewhere, suburban areas are growing as cities decline.
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Congress must prioritize Native women through legislation
The critical Violence Against Women Act is set to expire at the end of this month.