The 11 board members who voted for the name change felt that Army Spc. Lori Piestewa symbolizes everyone who has died in the line of duty, Lou Yost, the board’s executive secretary, said from ...

Engines echoed through canyons and across desert highways as riders with the Navajo Hopi Honor Riders carried out the 22nd ...

Section 7 Basketball, the country’s largest NCAA-certified scholastic live period event, proudly announces OrthoArizona as ...

The Piestewa Fallen Heroes Memorial Ceremony takes place at Piestewa Peak on March 23 each year, named in honor of Army Spc. Lori Ann Piestewa. American Gold Star Mothers was founded for mothers ...

Immersive education on the Indigenous experience continued with a hike up Piestewa Peak, named in honor of Lori Piestewa, a member of the Hopi Tribe who died heroically in combat in Iraq.

Their silver tops sparkle in the heavy sunlight, illuminating the emblem above their hearts that honors their fallen sister, Specialist Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman to die while ...

At daybreak on Sunday, the surviving family members of Lori Piestewa congregated at the mountain that for two decades has gone by her name. In 2003, Piestewa was killed in Iraq, becoming the first ...

Information about Lori Piestewa, a Hopi Army specialist who became the first Native American woman to die on foreign soil, also disappeared. By Friday, after widespread outcry, those pages ...

In 2008, the board approved a proposal to change the name of a prominent Phoenix mountain to Piestewa Peak to honor Army Spc. Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman to die in combat while ...