In 1868 the Navajo Nation was established by a treaty. In 1882, a presidential executive order established a 2.4 million-acre ...

An estimated 30% of households on the Navajo Reservation lack piped water in their homes, forcing them to drive long distances to haul water, putting them at risk of sanitation-related diseases, ...

The Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025 was reintroduced on Tuesday after failing to come up for a vote before the last Congress adjourned at the end of 2024. The landmark ...

Navajo and Hopi are hardly friends. Yet they have unanimously agreed to a deal that could finally bring running water to thousands of tribal homes that lack it in northeastern Arizona. The ...

WASHINGTON — Navajo lawmakers voted Thursday to reject a congressional plan to settle tribal water-right claims in the Little Colorado River basin, capping months of debate by the tribe. The council ...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - The Navajo Nation Council has signed off on a proposed water rights settlement that carries a price tag larger than any such agreement enacted by Congress would ensure water for ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) – Jimmy Detsoi touted a proposal that he thought would get unanimous support from people in a small Navajo community where raising livestock is synonymous with culture and ...

This article is republished from The Conversation. The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) in the Southwest – an ...

Editor's Note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...

Editor’s Note: Coronavirus has devastated Native American communities and put a spotlight on some long-standing problems in Indian Country that have made this pandemic that much worse. But at the ...