Joshua Briese, a young officer at the Gila River Police Department in Arizona, was killed while responding to a disturbance call in Santan, District 4 of the Gila River Indian Community.

As farmers in central Arizona, whose water supply was severely cut in 2021, pare down their operations, Lewis is resolute that the Gila River tribe wants to keep expanding its farms — for which ...

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 ...