The Latest Breaking News from Navajo Nation

Navajo Nation reps said that Certificates of Indian Blood (CIBs) and state-issued IDs are not being recognized by ICE agents as valid proof of citizenship

Native American report ICE wasn’t recognizing their documentation

Join the discussion on the controversial plan to send human remains to the moon, as indigenous cultures raise concerns about cultural desecration.

NASA representatives responded to the Navajo Nation's request to delay a private mission carrying human remains to the moon alongside agency scientific payloads.

Tribe accuses space agency of breaking past commitments to consult over lunar missions

"[The decision] showcases the now-familiar contrast between the Court’s two different approaches to conservative jurisprudence: the strict formalism of Justice Gorsuch—a stern insistence that the United States live up to the letter of its legal obligations come hell or high water—as opposed to the status-quo, stare decisis driven conservative jurisprudence…

"[T]he Court held that despite being a 'trustee' for the Navajo Nation and despite having promised the Navajo water sufficient to make its lands productive, the United States does not have an obligation to help the Navajo obtain that water."

For the Navajo Nation, the fight for water rights has real implications, with infrastructure often never built

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 area larger than 10 states. Today it is home to more than 250,000 people – roughly comparable to the population of St. Petersburg, Florida, or Winston-Salem, North…