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A group of Arizona high school students and alumni was in Washington this week to lobby for a bill that would block development of a copper mine at Oak Flat, land that is sacred to the San Carlos Apache.

In honor of Native American Heritage month, KUNM will be paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of our First Nation people by highlighting prominent Native American figures. Our next individual is an actor who stirred controversy for declining Marlon Brando’s 1973 Oscar.

A trio of bills affecting water rights and infrastructure for Arizona tribes took a step closer to becoming law Wednesday, a move one official said his tribe has been waiting for since being forced onto the reservation.

ABC15 went to Whiteriver, Arizona, to talk to a couple who left the Valley to bring their coffee business to their community.

At the second annual Tribal Leaders Summit, leaders of Arizona tribes met with President Robert C. Robbins and learned about health sciences research and programs that serve Native American communities.

A 1978 law allows for Indian children to be taken from the only parents they've ever known to live on a reservation hundreds of miles away.

"Just minutes after crossing the border into my new home state, I noticed a new billboard with a clear message: You moved to Arizona for more freedom, so don’t vote like you did in California."

The actress, who died Oct. 2, became famous for a protest at the 1973 Oscars. Now a researcher and Littlefeather’s own sisters dispute her claims that she was Native American. Her defenders say Indian identity is a complex matter.

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. When Sacheen Littlefeather died on…

A new report disputes the heritage claims of Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather. A scholar explains why scrutiny over alleged ethnic fraud is essential.