Gilarya Begaye looks out across the brush-blanketed pastures, red-dirt plains and flat-topped mesas that surround her home in the Navajo Nation. “My heart’s always been here.” But for all the ways that living on the reservation feeds the soul, one basic necessity has been sorely lacking for Begaye, her six children and other Navajos: water. Water barrels lie empty at …
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Chinese immigrant workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where cultivating the plant is illegal, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in state court. “We hope that this lawsuit will demonstrate that such abusive practices do not pay.” …
The Colorado River begins in the Rocky Mountains, collecting snowmelt as it meanders through an alpine valley. Introduction by Ian James HEADWATERS | CANYONLANDS | LAKE POWELL | GRAND CANYON | LAS VEGAS | NEEDLES | LAKE HAVASU | PHOENIX | IMPERIAL VALLEY | YUMA | MEXICO HEADWATERS Rifle Falls sets a wintry scene near the community of Rifle, Colo., …
Four of the Supreme Court’s conservatives were skeptical of the race-based preferences in the Indian Child Welfare Act, saying they sometimes prevent adoptions that might be in the best interest of the child. Supreme Court justices sounded sharply split Wednesday on whether to strike down a federal child custody law that seeks to keep Native American children with tribal families. …
