After over 500 years of broken treaties and forceful domination from European settlers and the U.S. government, Native Americans in Arizona today still face racism in the most intimate part of their religion and identity: their home. Today, a border wall, a copper mine and a reversal of the previous administration’s policies are a…
En la tierra de la nación Navajo, el fantasma del pasado de la industria minera sigue persiguiendo a los nativos que viven ahí. Comenzó en la década de 1940 cuando las tierras navajo eran y siguen siendo viveros de uranio. La nueva industria de la fabricación de armas trajo una nueva oportunidad de trabajo para…
On Navajo Nation land, the ghost of the mining industry’s past still haunts the native people who live there. It began in the 1940s when the Navajo land was — and still is — a hotbed for uranium. The new weapon-manufacturing industry brought a new opportunity for jobs among the natives living on the land,…
Basketball has become a thriving sport on Native American reservations spawning a national tournament and two of the largest high school gyms in the U.S. “Rez ball” as it is called on the reservations, is a focal point not just in Arizona, but across the country as well. An HBO documentary titled “Rez Ball” spotlights…
