Native Americans

On July 16, 1945, the U.S. detonated the first nuclear bomb. In the years that followed, other tests led to a wave of health problems in Utah and across the West. Now, advocates are celebrating the expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

Farrell Hayes represents something that veteran firefighters say is harder to come by these days: a young person who wants to get involved in firefighting.

A doctor's office on wheels has helped the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe ease a rural health care shortage. Mobile clinics are also being used by the Navajo Nation, the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona and the Fort Peck Tribes in Montana.

Nationwide, tens of thousands of Indigenous households use firewood to help heat their homes. That's why the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California is making sure their elders have the chopped wood they need.

While climate change isn’t the main driver behind the push to restore buffalo’s wildlife status, the move could bring positive effects to the fight against global warming.

Students at the Indian boarding school, which operated in Brigham City until 1984, shared their cultures by painting on the walls. Now their work is public.

The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states over the next six months to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country.

“We can't post policemen at every rock art or rock writing site,” said Southern Utah University's Samantha Kirkley. So the key is helping kids develop a link to the past.

The move came after tribes across the country objected to the removal of their histories. Defense Department officials said the Navajo Code Talker material was erroneously erased after part of a broader sweep of information that promoted diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.

Some believe lawmakers don’t see the need to codify it after the U.S. Supreme Court decided the federal ICWA was constitutional.

States that use the Colorado River say they don't want to go to the Supreme Court, but some are quietly preparing for litigation.

In the Western U.S., extreme wildfires are damaging tribal lands. Climate change has only made the situation more dire. That’s why the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California is working to reintroduce intentional, cultural fire.