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Campus

BYU Global Engineering Outreach Club helps build housing for Navajo community

By Nora Shin
October 15, 2024 12:18 PM
The BYU Global Engineering Outreach Club's students and faculty volunteered to help build the foundation of a Navajo Nation community home in Aneth, Utah on Sept. 20-21.
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State

Traveling the Navajo Nation after the devastation of COVID-19

By Marissa Lundeen
October 27, 2023 12:00 AM
The trip, like many good things in life, began as a bumpy ride.
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Campus News

Native American students share their experience at BYU

By Hailey Deeds
April 28, 2022 12:00 AM
Brigham Young University exists on the homeland of theNoochee(the word for “the people'' in Ute.) Utah is home to eight different tribal nations. However,less than 1%of students who attend BYU are American Indian.
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State

Native and Indigenous people disproportionately affected by COVID-19

By Martha Harris
January 22, 2021 12:00 AM
Tamra Borchardt-Slayton stood outside the window of the hospital where her grandmother was being treated for COVID-19. Borchardt-Slayton was only able to wave at her grandmother before she was intubated.
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Softball

Freshman Lexi Atcitty ready to represent Navajo Nation for BYU Softball

By Andrew Call
November 14, 2020 12:00 AM
BYU pitcher Lexi Atcitty made her college softball debut at the Cougars Blue and White Scrimmage on Oct. 17, 2020.
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State

Resolution may bring awareness to violence against indigenous women, girls, LGBT community

By Harriet Norcross
February 14, 2019 12:00 AM
Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ face higher odds of physical and sexual violence, especially in the state of Utah. A resolution may designate a state holiday to bring awareness to this fact. (Universe Photo)
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Nation

Utah Navajos could tip balance after voting-rights battle

By Associated Press
November 05, 2018 12:00 AM
MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah (AP) — Tammie Nakai lives under a vista of red-rock spires and purple sunrise sky that offers arguably some of the United States' most breathtaking views. But her home lacks what most of the country considers basic necessities: electric lines and running water.
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