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NASA’s Perseverance rover team uses Navajo language …

This March 4, 2021 file photo made available by NASA was taken during the first drive of the Perseverance rover on Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP, File)

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NPS: Ranger tried to diffuse confrontation before using …

Petroglyph National Monument on April 19, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Adria Malcolm/Getty Images for National Park Foundation)

Fast rollout of coronavirus vaccine trials reveal tribal …

In this Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, photo provided by Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, registered nurse Starla Garcia prepares a coronavirus vaccine in Chinle, Ariz., for someone who enrolled in the COVID-19 vaccine trials on the Navajo Nation and initially received a placebo. (Nina Mayer Ritchie/Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health via AP)

Switch to remote learning leaves rural students isolated

Social worker Victoria Dominguez hands school bus driver Kelly Maestas a school math book for a student at a stop outside Cuba, N.M., Oct. 19, 2020. (Cedar Attanasio/AP Photo)

Navajo Nation mourns death of Fort Hood soldier, the latest …

Pvt. Corlton L. Chee is seen in an undated photo. (U.S. Army via CNN)

Only Native American on federal death row is executed …

This undated family photo provided by Auska Mitchell shows Lezmond Mitchell, who is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., for the 2001 killing of Alyce Slim and her granddaughter. The Navajo government is pushing to spare his life on the basis cultural beliefs and sovereignty. Mitchell was the first Native American sentenced to death since the resumption of the federal death penalty in 1994 and the only Native American awaiting his punishment. (Courtesy Auska Mitchell via AP)

Native American tribes sue U.S. government to get their …

Horses graze next to the Missouri River near the Lower Brule Indian Reservation on April 22, 2020 in Lower Brule, South Dakota. The threat posed by the novel coronavirus to particularly vulnerable populations has cast a shadow over the daily reality, already filled with difficulties, of Sioux tribe members. (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Navajo Code Talker Who Fought in WWII Dies at 97

Trump Met With Silence After Calling Sen. Elizabeth …

Left, Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a Senate committee hearing on July 11, 2017. Right, President Donald Trump at an event with members of the Native American code talkers on Nov. 27, 2017. (Credit: Getty Images / left, Chip Somodevilla; right, Oliver Contreras - pool)

Man Arrested in Connection With Kidnapping and Death …