Mary Francis Polanco, a lifelong journalist, will be remembered for her tenacity, her vision as a documentarian and her role in founding the Indigenous Journalists Association. Polanco, who founded ...

Polanco, who founded the Jicarilla Chieftain in 1962 and served as its editor-in-chief for more than 40 years, died March 7 in her sleep. She was 86. She was born Mary Lynch on April 17 ...

CalMatters: Billions of state and federal dollars are spent on Lake Tahoe. But is all this attention actually protecting this ...

Mary Frances Polanco, Jicarilla Apache, founder and first treasurer of the Indigenous Journalist Association (formerly the Native American Journalists Association). (Photo courtesy of Mary Frances ...

The Supreme Court's decision in Arizona v. Navajo Nation held that the federal government is under no obligation to take affirmative steps to help the Navajo Nation secure water rights promised to it ...

As part of an Indigenous water rights settlement, the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project is projected to deliver a mammoth volume of water to tribal communities, including more than 40 Navajo ...

Jicarilla adds: "So reducing the roads to 20 has saved 100+ lives in the last year. So let's look closer. Outside schools? Pedestrian crossings? In fact all those places mentioned as necessitated ...

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A nomadic tribe pushed into New Mexico by frontier settlement, the Jicarilla slipped off the radar and became the last tribe to avoid forced settlement onto an American Indian reservation. North ...