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TUCSON-President Donald Trump's border wall now stretches along just more than 200 miles of U.S.-Mexico borderland. Progress hasn't slowed during the COVID-19 pandemic; in some places it's even accelerating. But there's a tiny swath of tribal land along the lower Colorado River where that's not the case. The Cocopah Reservation sits in the river's delta, a corner of the borderland where California, Arizona and Mexico meet. Members of the Cocopah Indian Tribe are among the 40...
PHOENIX, Ariz.-Arizona tribes were among those who could get too much-or too little- COVID-19 relief funding under a Treasury Department funding formula that is based on "probably not the best numbers," according to the author of a new report. The policy brief from the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and the University of Arizona's Native Nations Institute criticized the formula used to allocate the first $4.8 billion of relief to tribes under the Coron...
I was barely a teenager when I began smoking pot and dabbling with Ouija boards. In less than three years, I was running cocaine for a big dealer and sold my soul to the devil. Moving into an apartment with like-minded drug addicts and criminals, we spent our time snorting coke, smoking crack, dealing drugs, vandalizing churches while on LSD, and committing petty theft. I read the satanic bible on a nightly basis, as if I would gain brownie points from the devil. Landing in...
