California condors scavenging

Navajo Nation Joins Group Working to Prevent Lead Poisoning in Animals

Arizona's largest Indigenous tribe has joined an effort that aims to prevent scavenging animals from suffering lead…
A young man in a black beanie and glasses calibrates a large telescope.

Grand Canyon's New Astronomer in Residence

Grand Canyon, Ariz. — Grand Canyon Conservancy (GCC) is excited to welcome Stephen Hummel as the first Astronomer in…
A spot near John Ford Point offers a dramatic view of the weathered buttes of Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation. | Jerry Jacka
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Photographs by Jerry D. Jacka

One of Jacka’s favorite Arizona spots was Coal Mine Canyon, southeast of Tuba City on the Navajo Nation. “Each time I…
Superstition Mountain is the title of this painting by David Swing, depicting the iconic mountain with a foreground of a dirt road through desert landscape dotted by saguaros.
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The Nature Of An Artist

CORONADO TRAIL   LAKE MEAD…
Students, teachers and other staff at a federal Indian boarding school in the Kingman area pose for a photo around 1900. | University of Southern California DIGITAL LIBRARY, California Historical Society Collection
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Painful Lessons

The only things my mother heard were the sounds of children’s cries, whimpers and soft footsteps as they fled into the…
The gas-powered riverboat Aztec passes through a movable bridge at Yuma in 1902. The Aztec moved cargo on the Colorado River between Yuma and Needles, California, until 1905, when a severe sandstorm caused it to wreck a few miles downstream from Needles. | THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
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Rollin' On The River

Behind the moored steamboat Gila, a bridge used by the Southern Pacific Railroad spans…
Clyde Tombaugh peers through a 6-inch telescope at the University of Kansas, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees. This photo was made in 1936, six years after Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto at Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory. | New Mexico State University
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Staring Into Space

Looking through a hand magnifier, Clyde Tombaugh could barely see the stars on the image in front of him at Flagstaff’s…
Described by some as eccentric, Wilhelm Smith had connections to many better-known figures in the history of the American Southwest. | SHARLOT HALL MUSEUM
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She’s a Relative Unknown

Sedona’s newest park honors the city’s history, and one of the city’s oldest buildings is its focus. But just beyond…