The National Park Service said to date there have been approximately 12 river and backcountry groups that have reported gastrointestinal illness, with up to 90 individuals experiencing symptoms, consistent with norovirus.
Containment of the Tunnel Fire increased to 20 percent Monday evening as firefighters continued to secure the fire’s perimeter and remove any heat near the control lines.
Grand Canyon RIISE is looking for Native youth, 16-20 years old and a member of one of the associated tribes of the Grand Canyon, to take a free, once-in-a-lifetime trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon July11-19.
It’s been a hard few months for Jerrel Singer — he lost his sister to COVID-19 at the end of October and then in short order his aunt and uncle. By the Christmas holiday, Singer had become sick and was hospitalized himself.
On Dec. 14, the Navajo Nation received 3,900 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 and started vaccinations immediately.
There are only a handful of publishing presses that publish only Indigenous writers and even less that are owned by Indigenous people.
The project features Jim Enote (Zuni), Nikki Cooley (Navajo), Leigh Kuwanwisiwma (Hopi), Coleen Kaska (Havasupai) and Loretta Jackson-Kelly (Hualapai).
A group of young environmentalists are tracing the haul route of uranium ore from Canyon Mine to the White Mesa Mill near Bluff, Utah, while also meeting with indigenous leaders who are giving them a crash course in environmental action.
While the films are made by indigenous people for indigenous people, that shouldn’t limit the audience to just indigenous people.
Navajo Generating Station (NGS) owners said Feb. 28 that they are moving forward with plans to decommission the power plant in Dec. 2019, despite interest from the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. (NTEC) in purchasing it.
