Hiking near Benson, Arizona, site of the proposed Rosemont mine Some good green news for a change in southern Arizona, where Trump’s Interior Secretary, David Bernhardt, a former oil industry lobbyist and lawyer, has bent over backwards to help his mining and developer friends dig mines and build giant housing developments in sensitive ecological zones … Continued
David Garcia (D. AZ) Received this e-mail today from education-leadership professor, David Garcia’s (D. AZ) gubernatorial campaign: I am writing to you today to announce my plan to make college free for Arizona students! Education is the door of opportunity for people like me who have passion and talent but need a chance. My folks … Continued
What might be “the largest forced removal of rural Americans since that of Japanese Americans during the Second World War?” It never is a good time to try to tell people about these issues; however, I had occasion this summer to meet a couple Navajo Elders from Big Mountain on the Navajo reservation, in which … Continued
The Sonoran Desert which stretches across part of the present-day American state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora is an area of very hot summers (high temperatures may reach 120° F) and relatively little rain. It was here that a culture called Hohokam by archaeologists flourished from 300 BCE until about 1400 CE. … Continued
Window Rock One thing you might not know about the U.S.’s Native American population is how widely distributed it is. Less than one-quarter of Native Americans (or, more specifically, members of the Census’s “American Indian and Alaska Native” category), for instance, live on tribal reservations, and the rest are distributed throughout both urban and rural … Continued
The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) invites applications for the 2018 Tribal Youth Health Policy Fellowship seating the second cohort of Fellows. The cohort will consist of 12 Native youth from around the country to engage throughout the year in Indian health policy and programming efforts. The Fellows will engage in Indian health policy solutions, … Continued
About 2,000 years ago, in what has seemed to some people the inhospitable desert of Central Arizona, Indian people developed a farming culture which utilized extensive irrigation systems. As farmers they raised corn (maize), tepary beans, grain amaranth, agave, and little barley. This ancient culture, called Hohokam by archaeologists, is considered ancestral to the O’odham … Continued
In the desert area of Arizona, an area now occupied by the greater Phoenix metro area, Indian people were farming corn, beans, squash, and cotton more than 2,500 years ago. Called Hohokam by archaeologists, these people developed a system of irrigation that carried water for many miles to their productive fields which yielded two harvests … Continued
Funerary practices and beliefs about death are more about the living than the dead. They provide some insights into the cultures of the people. The several Pueblo cultures and the Athabascan cultures (Navajo and Apache) live in close proximity to one another in New Mexico and Arizona. These cultures, in spite of their geographic proximity, … Continued
In 1680, the Pueblos of New Mexico revolted against the Spanish and drove them from the region. A decade later, however, the Spanish returned and began their re-conquest of New Mexico. In 1696, eleven Pueblo villages along the Rio Grande revolted again against the Spanish, but the revolt was quickly crushed. By 1700 the Spanish … Continued
