Throughout the past decade, Lewis and the Gila River tribe in general have been at the forefront of Arizona’s water issues — coming up with visionary and bold water conservation proposals and ...

Lewis, 56, has leveraged the Gila River tribe’s water abundance to help Arizona, making his tribe a power player in the parched region. His fingerprints are on many recent, high-stakes decisions ...

GILA RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION ... or GRIC—on their reservation in south-central Arizona, and they are the first of their kind in the U.S. The community is studying the effects of these panels ...

A feral bull is seen along the Gila River in the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico, on July 25, 2020. (Robin Silver/Center for Biological Diversity via AP) PHOENIX (CN) — A group of Arizona ...

PHOENIX — A large brush fire that threatened homes on the Gila River Indian community over the weekend is now at 450 acres as of Monday. At one point, the Fall Fire grew to 671 acres ...

Sacaton, Ariz. - Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe’s water. His father, the late Rodney Lewis, was general counsel for the ...

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(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) Lewis, 56, has leveraged the Gila River tribe’s water abundance to help Arizona, making his tribe a power player in the parched region. His fingerprints are on many ...

Lewis has leveraged the Gila River tribe's water abundance to help Arizona and others at a critical time, making his tribe a power player in the parched region. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) ...

Water-Rich Gila River Tribe Near Phoenix Flexes Its Political Muscles in a Drying West SACATON, Arizona (AP) — Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table ...

Lewis, 56, has leveraged the Gila River tribe’s water abundance to help Arizona, making his tribe a power player in the parched region. His fingerprints are on many recent, high-stakes decisions ...