Menagers Dam News Today

TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION, Ariz. — Menagers Dam, a 22-foot tall earthen structure located on the Tohono O’odham Nation in Southern Arizona, is set to be replaced using funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Coverage of tribal natural resources is supported in part by Catena Foundation On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced $27 million from President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda to upgrade clean water systems and replace failing dams for tribal communities, including one in Arizona. 

The family of an Indigenous man shot and killed by Border Patrol agents in May is suing the federal government over his death. Tohono O’odham tribal member Raymond Mattia was shot nine times outside his home in the tribal community of Menagers Dam, about a mile from the border with Mexico. Outside the Evo A. DeConcini Federal Courthouse in Tucson on Friday morning, Mattia’s

The family of a Tohono Oodham man shot and killed by border agents in May intends to file a wrongful-death claim against U.S. Customs and Border Protection, seeking $15 million

Tribal leaders in Arizona are voicing their opposition to a US attorney’s choice not to charge federal border agents involved in the fatal shooting

The tribe’s executive office called the decision not to file charges “a travesty of justice.”

The Department of Justice says it won’t pursue charges against Border Patrol agents who fatally shot a Native American man on tribal land earlier this year. Now, his family says they still have questions about the Department of Justice's investigation. 

The Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona on Friday blasted the decision by the U.S. Attorney’s Office not to prosecute Border Patrol agents who shot and killed a member of the tribe after they were summoned by tribal police.

The Tohono O'odham Nation blasted the decision to not prosecute Border Patrol agents who killed a member of the tribe.

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