Nye County will be the first and only county in the country to provide Shoshone language assistance — a traditionally non-written language that will require qualified interpreters at the polls going forward.
Native Americans
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After years of court battles tribes in Nevada are on a path to receive reparations from some of the largest United States drug distributors and a top drugmaker they say fueled an opioid epidemic in their communities.
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Almost half of Native American and Alaska Native survey respondents have experienced food insecurity during the pandemic, according to a new report released by Native-led food research organizations.
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The Fort Mojave Indian Tribe is one step closer to permanently protecting a sacred swath of land in Nevada after gaining congressional support to designate the landscape as a National Monument.
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The proposed Pine Valley Water Supply Project would pipe water to Cedar City in Iron County, Utah from aquifers east of Nevada’s border.
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Nevada’s Tribal fish hatcheries are facing new challenges: invasive species like the destructive quagga and zebra mussels.
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Members of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation Business Council this month met with state officials from Nevada to being the process of formalizing the Tribes’ water rights.
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Ahead of a conference of the Colorado River Water Users Association in Las Vegas, a group of conservationists and tribal leaders held a press conference on the overuse of water within the Colorado River Basin Monday.
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More than $5 million in Indian Community Block Grant-American Rescue Plan (ICDBG-ARP) grants were awarded to five Tribal communities in Nevada to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Stewart School in Carson City is among more than 350 residential schools that the U.S. Interior Department plans to examine as part of the Federal Boarding School Initiative Review.