Quechan Tribe

With Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday, this week's Arizona Edition show is dedicated to the tribal nations in Yuma and La Paz counties: the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe, the Colorado River Indian Tribes and the Cocopah Indian Tribe.

Hualapai activists are walking 1,200 miles across Arizona to oppose a proposed lithium mine near the tribe’s sacred Ha'Kamwe' hot spring. They were in Yuma on Monday.

The Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe says the project’s preferred route would cross ancestral lands, including the culturally significant Cargo Muchacho Mountains.

The City of Yuma is recognizing May 2026 to be National Awareness Month for Murdered Missing Indigenous Women and Relatives in Yuma County.

Organizers say they hope people seeing the land from the skies leads them to advocate for protecting it. Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe looking to protect the Colorado River.

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