The Veterans Administration removed all 22 tribal flags from its Phoenix medical center, a move tribal leaders condemned as ...
The governor's office said it had accepted the 22 flags, which were left with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community ...
All 22 Arizona tribal flags were removed from Phoenix VA medical center as Phoenix VA tribal flags removed under new federal ...
The flags stood inside the Carl T. Hayden Medical Center in Phoenix, representing Arizona’s 22 federally recognized Native ...
Federally recognized Indian tribes are considered sovereign nations by the United States government. Under VA’s new flag policy, like all sovereign-nation flags, those of federally recognized ...
Lewis said the move was "particularly inappropriate" because the policy allows any political sovereign in Arizona to display a flag except a tribe. The VA directive said that states, which are ...