Drive about 45 minutes southwest of the Phoenix Valley, and you will reach an expanse of the Sonoran desert with a long, rich history. The Gila River runs through this area, which was once lush with ...

Gregory McNamee, editor, photographer, publisher and author of the prize-winning book “Gila: The Life and Death of an American River,” presents a biography of the Gila River at the Bear Canyon Library ...

LAVEEN, AZ—On Thursday, the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) hosted Vice President Kamala Harris’s first visit to Indian Country at the Gila Crossing Indian School. It was Harris’s first to Indian ...

Sacaton, Ariz. - Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe’s water. His father, the late Rodney Lewis, was general counsel for the Gila River ...

A historic water deal could give an impoverished Indian community a path back to its roots — and turn it into one of the West’s next big power brokers Thirty miles south of downtown Phoenix, past the ...

Children would arrive at school, their clothes taken off, their hair that they were told was sacred was chopped off,” said ...