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This photo provided by Reeanne Parisien shows her son, Greyson, relaxing at home in Belcourt, N.D., in August 2019. Greyson's journey to correct a heart defect led the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians to designate a spot on tribal IDs for organ donation. (Reeanne Parisien via AP)

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Boy who got new heart inspires tribe to boost organ donation
By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press
Mon,12/19/22-6:33AM , 99 Reads
Greyson Parisien’s time on earth was short. But the boy with dark-rimmed eyeglasses who was enchanted by the music in “Frozen,” the sound of ripping paper and his dad playing the guitar is having an outsized impact on his tribal community in the far reaches of North Dakota.
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Naomi Bistline arrives at the federal courthouse in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Bistline and two other women from a polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border are charged with kidnapping and impeding a foreseeable prosecution. (AP Photo/Jake Bacon)

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Polygamous 'prophet' leader had child brides, documents say
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Wed,12/07/22-1:09AM , 112 Reads
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, newly filed federal court documents show.
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Garnett Querta wipes sweat from his head while hauling water on the Hualapai reservation Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, near Peach Springs, Ariz. The water pulled from the ground here will be piped dozens of miles across the rugged landscape to serve the roughly 600,000 tourists a year who visit the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai reservation in northwestern Arizona — an operation that's the tribe's main source of revenue. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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State of unease: Colorado basin tribes without water rights
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Thu,09/15/22-9:07AM , 93 Reads
PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he’s driving into park. Within seconds, he unrolls a fire hose and opens a hydrant, sending water flowing into one of the plastic tanks on the truck’s flat bed.
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Francisco Mata, left, Kira Nevayaktewa, Quintin Nahsonhoya and Felicia Mata help lay a concrete foundation for a skate ramp on Nov. 6, 2021, in the Village of Tewa on the Hopi reservation in northeastern Arizona. A handful of Hopi youth, including Nevayaktewa and Nahsonhoya, worked together to create the skate spot that opened this spring. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)

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Hopi teens see need for skateboarding park, make it happen
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Tue,08/23/22-11:41AM , 181 Reads
VILLAGE OF TEWA, Ariz. (AP) — They skateboarded on basketball courts and in parking lots, through highway intersections and down roads that twist from the mesas that rise above the high desert.
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