Indigenous Issues

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The latest Utah news from Monday morning, Sept. 27, 2021.

Former students come together to keep the history alive about a Utah Native Boarding School. For many alumni, they were able to find not only a sense of belonging but also family there.

This last year the Navajo Nation Department of Diné Education reported only about 0.4% of students were considered fluent in the language.

After months of repeated written questions and public records requests from NPR and the Mountain West News Bureau, Interior Department officials said they now plan to contract with an outside agency to examine the troubles plaguing tribal detention centers.

The National Congress of American Indians has urged the federal government to place medical personnel in its tribal jails, arguing that the current situation "exacerbates the already challenging problem of health disparities for American Indians."

"The corrections officers are basically holding these lives in their hands with their decisions."

Willy Pepion had a cracked skull, and guards at the federal jail on the Blackfeet Reservation dismissed his pleas for help. He died in his cell. Three hours went by until anyone noticed.

The Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City was once the largest native boarding school in the world, with up to 3,000 students attending. The school has a complicated legacy, but it’s a place many students say provided them opportunities they wouldn’t otherwise have had.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is mourning the discovery this week of another 751 bodies of Indigenous children at a former residential school in Canada. And he’s bracing for the Department of the Interior’s investigation into what happened at schools here in the U.S. — including one in Utah.

The Walker River Paiute Reservation is situated in remote western Nevada, surrounded by a sequence of mountains layered with shades of brown, red and...

Tribal members and policy experts are pushing Congress to pass funding for water infrastructure in Indian Country.