Indigenous Issues

The latest Utah news for Tuesday morning, March 29, 2022.

The state could soon join others in the Mountain West that have begun to address the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

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Indian Country Today collaborated with the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health to provide comprehensive data and maps to the public.

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."