VA removes tribal flags from Phoenix center. Tribal leaders say it dishonors Native vets
The Veterans Administration removed all 22 tribal flags from its Phoenix medical center, a move tribal leaders condemned as ...
Colleges cancel Native convocations to comply with Trump order, disappointing students
Mesa Community College students were disappointed that a presidential order to dismantle DEI programs ended Native ...
Pentagon restores histories of Navajo Code Talkers, other Native veterans after public outcry
The move Wednesday came after tribes across the country objected to the removal of their histories. The Pentagon scrubbed ...
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Arizona has a Native American suicide crisis. Here’s why
She has steered out of the skid that defined her adolescent years, but to that point, her story had been an all-too-common tale among Native Americans. In Arizona, Indigenous people — those that ...
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Asian Americans are still missing from Arizona history lessons, advocates say
From Larry Itliong, a Filipino activist who worked with Cesar Chavez, to the Japanese internment camps during World War II, ...
DOD removed pages about Native American Iwo Jima veteran Ira Hayes — then restored one, with changes
In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran best known for appearing in a photograph of six men ra ...
Science and health program for Native American youth to shut down in Northern Arizona
A total of 113 students have gone through the Cultural and Academic Research Experience (CARE) at Northern Arizona University ...
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Colleges cancel Native convocations to comply with Trump order, disappointing students
Notably, Mesa Community College ranks 8th in the nation for Native American student graduation rates among 1,057 two-year colleges, according to MCC. Arizona State University, University of ...