The Latest Breaking News from The Navajo Nation

NASA has responded to the Navajo Nation's objections over a private mission placing human remains on the moon alongside agency science payloads.

The legacy of fossil fuel development endures in leaks, spills and neglect.

"[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."

The scale of a scam to recruit Native Americans into fake treatment for substance in Phoenix and bill the government fraudulently is now emerging. It's huge.

Zachariah and Mary Ben were struck by the absence of fresh, local and traditional baby foods available near the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, so they began growing their own crops

Developers tout hydrogen as a clean energy source; Navajo opponents say it is another way outsiders will profit by harming their environment and health.

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

The decision leaves water infrastructure for the Navajo Nation on unsure ground

A Supreme Court ruling this week will make it harder for the Navajo Nation to get water from the Colorado River

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…