The Latest Breaking News from Navajo Nation

Emptiness paints the vast ranges and rugged mountains of Arizona’s 22 Native reservations, sculpting daily life, culture and even politics in nearly a quarter of the state

Governor Tim Walz's visit to Navajo Nation, supporting Kamala Harris and criticizing Trump's treatment of Native Americans, marked a significant moment in ...

"[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…

The Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a dispute involving water from the drought-stricken Colorado River

Almost a third of the reservation's 170,000 residents lack access to clean, reliable drinking water. The tribe wants to be able to represent itself in litigation over the Colorado River.

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court confronted on Monday the question of whether the government must do more to provide water for the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona.