Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

A wall within a wall: How Trumps plan affects already divided Tohono Oodham nation

A wall within a wall: How Trump’s plan affects already divided Tohono O’odham nation

Lauren Renteria April 27, 2017

For the Tohono O'odham nation, a border wall already exists, it just hasn’t been built yet. In the desert of southern Arizona, the federally recognized O’odham reservation occupies 4,464 square...

Khalil Rushdan sits in a cafe in Phoenix, Ariz. on March 4, 2017. Rushdan spent 15 years in prison of his 25 year sentence and was exonerated on he grounds of prosecutorial vindictiveness in 2011.

Arizona justice: Freeing the wrongly imprisoned

Lauren Renteria March 24, 2017

In the fall of 2011, Khalil Rushdan walked out of prison a free man. Rushdan served 15 years of a 25-year sentence following his conviction for first-degree felony murder in 1997.  That year,...

Contamination from decades of uranium mining lingers on Navajo land

Contamination from decades of uranium mining lingers on Navajo land

Lauren Renteria March 8, 2017

  On Navajo Nation land, the ghost of the mining industry’s past still haunts the native people who live there. It began in the 1940s when the Navajo land was — and still is — a...

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