Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former state Sen. Jack Jackson, Sr. , speaks on the lawn of the state Capitol at the annual Indian Nations and Tribes Legislative ...

PHOENIX – Former Arizona state legislator Jack Jackson, whose career highlights included obtaining education funding for tribal communities, died Sunday at 89, the Indigenous Peoples Caucus announced.

Jack Jackson Sr., a former Navajo Nation Council delegate who served in the Arizona Legislature for nearly 20 years and helped secure a critical source of education money for Native communities, died ...