As National Public Lands Day approaches, Indigenous leaders discuss working with agencies to manage dispossessed lands.
Items by Anna V. Smith
When power players like mining and agriculture are involved, tribal nations, usually the senior-most water-rights holders, often must fight obstruction.
Nearly all of the tribe’s water remains in the river and ends up being used by Southern California cities.
The court case was the Nation’s bid to accelerate decades of fruitless negotiations and secure water for its reservation.
A High Country News/ProPublica investigation shows that Arizona goes to unusual lengths in water negotiations to extract restrictive concessions from tribes.
The rookie congresswoman says she wants to advance tribal autonomy.
Before Avi Kwa Ame became a national monument, there was the fight for Ward Valley.
Biden’s proclamation protects parts of the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada and includes tribal co-stewardship.
What would it look like to interpret the treaties as tribes understood them?
The Biden administration’s policies signal a shift in lands management, but a sea change is yet to come.
The now-dead proposal to ‘investigate’ reservations was neither the beginning or the end of combative attitudes towards tribal nations in the state.
See the river as the climate changes, development continues and consequences grow with inaction.
Indigenous nations in the basin are making a stand for their water — and upsetting the river’s power structure.
Reproductive rights are in the hands of the states — and their voters.
New designations could help meet conservation goals set by the administration.
$720 million goes directly to tribal nations, but compromises raise questions.
Chi’chil Biłdagoteel exemplifies the larger struggle tribes face over protecting off-reservation, culturally important lands.
Another dry year pushes tribal nations, federal agencies and irrigators to find long-lasting solutions.
The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative aims to shed light on the grim history of residential Indian boarding schools in the U.S.
This year’s drought is worse than in 2001, when political and environmental tensions exploded into the national spotlight.
Unprecedented drought in the Klamath Basin leaves communities wondering how they will make it through the summer.
Population growth has slowed overall, but the West continues at a fast pace, adding three congressional seats.
The Arrow Lakes Band is one of many Indigenous communities bisected and disrupted by a border about which they were never consulted.
Federal recognition provides tribes with critical healthcare and education. What happens to the tribal nations that the U.S. refuses to recognize?
Four important decisions will impact the forests, lands and waters of tribal nations.
Diane Wilson’s new novel explores the relationship between seeds and humans, and how our survival and abundance are intertwined.
After decades of battling misinformation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes recover their lands and the herd.
From legal decisions to on-the-ground policies, Indigenous lawyers describe the administration’s tactics as an “onslaught” removing federal protections of land and wildlife.
Representation is important, and so are policy decisions impacting tribes on the ground.
For communities who speak Indigenous Mayan languages like Mam, the Oregon program is a vital resource.
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