An amicus brief was filed before the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe in South Point Energy Center LLC v. Arizona Department of Revenue. The brief calls on ...

FORT MOJAVE INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. – The barren landscape of the Fort Mojave reservation south of Hoover Dam receives less than seven inches of rain a year. It’s a tough place to eke out a living, ...

A Letter of Intent between the Lytton Rancheria and Cadiz, Inc. was announced today, outlining the tribe’s plan to invest up to $50 million in a groundwater banking project in the Mojave Desert, known ...

Explore Avi Kwa Ame’s Joshua trees, petroglyphs, and sacred lands with voices from Fort Mojave. Join Outdoor Nevada host Connor Fields at Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, a sacred and ecologically rich ...

Water is life, especially in the desert. The Indigenous people of the area today known as Southern Nevada know this. The Las Vegas Wash, for example, was once an important trading ground for the ...

For many sovereign tribal nations who call the desert home, water insecurity is a reality that shapes everyday life. For too long, the needs of tribal communities across the country have been ...

A water well at Cadiz Ranch in the Mojave Desert. As downtown-based water infrastructure company Cadiz Inc. is well into the third decade of its pursuit of a massive water storage and transfer project ...

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Long before Mormons settled at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Genoa or Mexican trader Antonio Armijo coined the term “Las Vegas” en route to Los Angeles, Native tribes roamed the Silver State ...