Navajo

ABC News (GALLUP, N.M.) — Just miles from the site of the 1979 Church Rock Mill spill, the largest nuclear disaster in American history, uranium extraction operations could resume near the Navajo Nation. Now, Navajo leaders say the health and prosperity of their community could be in even further jeopardy. A Canadian company is working […]

Rachel Scott/ABC News (UTAH) — For the past 20 years, Henry Wilson has been forced to travel several miles, multiple times a day, to get water for his family in Monument Valley, Utah. By the time the sun rises above the red sandstone pillars, Wilson is on his way to a nearby well. But on […]

xRyan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the nation’s largest Native American reservation – spanning 16 million-acres across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah – one in three households lacks running water, according to the Navajo Nation. At the Supreme Court on Monday, the tribe will face off with the federal government and a group of states […]