FORT MOJAVE INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. – The barren landscape of the Fort Mojave reservation south of Hoover Dam receives less than seven inches of rain a year. It’s a tough place to eke out a living, ...

Water is life, especially in the desert. The Indigenous people of the area today known as Southern Nevada know this. The Las Vegas Wash, for example, was once an important trading ground for the ...

Long before Mormons settled at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Genoa or Mexican trader Antonio Armijo coined the term “Las Vegas” en route to Los Angeles, Native tribes roamed the Silver State ...

Explore Avi Kwa Ame’s Joshua trees, petroglyphs, and sacred lands with voices from Fort Mojave. Join Outdoor Nevada host Connor Fields at Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, a sacred and ecologically rich ...

A water well at Cadiz Ranch in the Mojave Desert. As downtown-based water infrastructure company Cadiz Inc. is well into the third decade of its pursuit of a massive water storage and transfer project ...

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