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Lynette Craig marches with a poster of her brother who went missing in 2020 around the California State Capitol at the second annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit and Day of Action on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Villegas)

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Long after tragic mysteries are solved, families of Native American victims are kept in the dark
By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press
Mon,02/19/24-8:43AM , 31 Reads
It was the winter of 2021 when Philbert Shorty’s family found his abandoned car stuck in the mud outside the small community of Tsaile near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. “We knew something happened from the get-go," said his uncle, Ben Shorty. “We couldn’t find any answers.”
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Participants walk around at the Burning Man festival on the Black Rock Desert of Gerlach, Nev., on Aug. 27, 2014. Burning Man organizers don't foresee major changes in 2024 thanks to a hard-won passing grade for cleaning up this year's festival. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)

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Burning Man survived a muddy quagmire. Will the experiment last 30 more years?
By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press
Tue,12/26/23-11:26PM , 38 Reads
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The blank canvas of desert wilderness in northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a towering, anonymous effigy. It was goodbye to San Francisco’s Baker Beach, hello to the Nevada playa, the long-ago floor of an inland sea.
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Gary McKinney, a spokesman for People of Red Mountain and a member of the nearby Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribe, walks near Sentinel Rock on April 25, 2023, outside of Orovada, Nev. The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony is abandoning its 3-year lawsuit aimed at blocking a lithium mine currently under construction at Thacker Pass in northwest Nevada. Tribal leaders say the U.S. Interior Department refuses to accept their arguments that the mine's on a sacred site where more than two dozen Paiute and Shoshone ancestors were massacred in 1865. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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Nevada tribe says coalitions, not lawsuits, will protect sacred sites as US advances energy agenda
By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press
Sat,12/23/23-11:01PM , 35 Reads
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The room was packed with Native American leaders from across the United States, all invited to Washington to hear from federal officials about President Joe Biden's accomplishments and new policy directives aimed at improving relationships and protecting sacred sites.

Arlan Melendez was not among them.
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Wild horses gallop on the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation on April 25, 2023, near McDermitt, Nev. A judge has asked federal land managers to explain by Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, why they should be allowed to continue capturing more than 2,500 wild horses in northeastern Nevada — a roundup opponents say is illegal and has left 31 mustangs dead in 26 days. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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Federal agency given deadline to explain why deadly Nevada wild horse roundup should continue
By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press
Sat,08/05/23-1:56PM , 60 Reads
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A judge has asked federal land managers to explain why they should be allowed to continue capturing more than 2,500 wild horses in northeastern Nevada — a roundup opponents say is illegal and has left 31 mustangs dead in 26 days.
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