Meth adds scourge to troubled Native American lands
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HOGBACK, New Mexico  - A brutal triple slaying in this remote corner of the vast Navajo reservation brought home what experts have seen coming for years: an explosion in crime on tribal lands linked to the cheap, potent and highly addictive stimulant methamphetamine.
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SKULL VALLEY, Utah  - As some U.S. Indian tribes   have grown rich in recent years through casinos, others far   from population centers have struggled to overcome a historical   legacy of poverty.
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SAN MANUEL INDIAN RESERVATION, Calif. -- Once steeped in poverty, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has become one of the nation's wealthiest tribes, thanks to casino gambling.
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Within the vast collection of the new National Museum of the American Indian is a stark reminder of some of the darkest days of Colorado history.
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By Anita Stackhouse-Hite, The Porterville Recorder, Calif.  Jun. 19--TULE RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION -- The Tule River Natural Resources department struck a heavy blow for farmers and ranchers Monday in the fight against noxious weeds on the reservation and in the Central Valley.
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By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 6--The pollution that plagued northern Utah valleys last month left  Ann Waters, like many Utahns, disgusted and alarmed.
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By Joel Hood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Mar. 11--THE ACREAGE -- The prospect of putting the first gas station in The Acreage has erupted into a bitter culture clash over the character of this western community.
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Buoyed by hundreds of millions of dollars in annual profits from their gambling businesses, Indian tribes are looking farther afield for places to invest their casino wealth.
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By ERIK ROBINSON, Columbian staff writer  Five polluted sites in Clark and Skamania counties are on the state Department of Ecology's radar, through new listings on the Hazardous Sites List.
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SELLS, Arizona  - An elite group of Native American trackers that use skills handed down from the ancestral hunt is being tapped to play a larger role in securing the United States' borders.
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Wide-eyed and appearing catatonic, Shawn Bridges couldn&#039;t muster any talk from his hospital bed, his gaunt, tattooed body wracked by years of abusing the powerfully addictive witch&#039;s brew of chemicals that is methamphetamine.
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TO THE EDITOR:           After visiting some of the western public forests, grasslands and parks, I understand much better about the scars left from drilling and mineral exploration. Vehicle tracks will be there for centuries just like the wagons of early settlers have left their mark.
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CULIACAN, Mexico  - From the lush mountain valleys of Peru to America's toughest streets, ruthless Mexican gangs are grabbing control of the multi-billion dollar cocaine and crystal meth smuggling trade.
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An Indian tribe fastened a massive glass-bottomed walkway to the edge of the Grand Canyon on Wednesday as part of an ambitious tourism center that has angered environmentalists and some tribal members.
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Western states grapple with how to address an increasing threat to livestock from wolves and big cats.
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Mexico's new government, struggling with rampant drug trafficking and crime, ordered thousands of troops to the western state of Michoacan on Monday to fight drug cartels locked in a vicious turf war.
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By Copyright  2007 Albuquerque Journal BY JAKE RIGDON Journal Staff Writer  Up a dirt road, just west of the Northern Meadows subdivision on the outskirts of Rio Rancho, is a grisly scene straight out of a horror flick.