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A musician from our region is channeling his Navajo ancestors and an innovative composer to honor those lost in the long walk.
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The Navajo Nation takes issue with three new hydropower projects.
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Pouring a glass of water in your kitchen isn’t always easy on tribal lands. Overall, Native American families are 19 times more likely than a white family to lack indoor plumbing. And it’s a big problem in our region.
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As residents of a small community on the Navajo Nation eagerly await construction of a 7-mile water pipeline from the Rio Grande, they imagine the luxuries of running water.
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Construction will soon begin on a 7-mile pipeline that will deliver water from the Rio Grande to the small Navajo community of To’Hajiilee, where the water's so bad the local government trucks in bottled water for residents.
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For some households in the Navajo Nation safe drinking water is not accessible. Now a research project from Johns Hopkins University is looking at just how many homes are going without.
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Tribal communities have historically had a hard time getting clean drinking water and that can affect the health of their babies. Some public health studies have tried to change the narrative.
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In the Southwest, tribal health organizations are finding ways to counter the factors – including the lack of access to clean drinking water – that contribute to high rates of childhood obesity in Native communities.
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The Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health is examining water quality and access on the Navajo Nation—an ongoing issue for many tribal communities.
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The University of Idaho has created a College of Law Program with a Native American law emphasis. Idaho Matters talked with the director of the program, along with three recently graduated students to find out more about the program and why it's so important.