Gila River leader says feds' inattention to roads drives other problems

WASHINGTON – To the list of issues affecting education, Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis would add a new problem: deteriorating roads.

Of the web of tribal, county, state, and federally owned roads on the Gila River reservation, 306 are supposed to be maintained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. But Lewis told a Senate committee Wednesday that the BIA is doing a dismal job.

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