The Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe has won for a third time in its battle against gold mining on its sacred lands. The Imperial County, California, Board of Supervisors voted March 19 to deny the Oro Cruz ...

The Quechan Tribe — and Arizona — lost one of its cultural treasures when bead artist and Quechan language teacher Daisy Golding Simms died March 1 in Winterhaven, California, near Yuma. She was 88.

(CN) - A Native American tribe wants to block a proposed wind power plant on protected California land that it says is home to hundreds of archaeological sites. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar ...

Imperial County supervisors have declined to uphold an environmental approval for gold mining on tribal lands and rare habitat in the county's eastern edge. That means the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe has ...

YUMA — Quechan tribal members Elan and Donald Medart were excited for the opportunity to see some of their tribe's most significant lands along Haquita — known to the greater world as the Colorado ...

YUMA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Gold mining is a billion-dollar business, and up until about 30 years ago, the Cargo Muchacho Mountains, a mountain range along the I-8 from Phoenix to San Diego, was home to a ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new seasonal land fallowing program between Metropolitan Water District and the Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation will conserve Colorado River water, ...

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YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — The results of a Native American tribe’s second recall vote in southwestern Arizona have been tossed out. The Yuma Sun reports the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe held its second ...