For over a century, federal law has split Native American land holdings into tiny pieces. A settlement unites some of the splinters, but at a steep cost.
Items by Sierra Crane-Murdoch
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is not immune to effects of the Bakken oil boom.
In a small town once plagued by childhood cancer, some families still search for answers.
Los Angeles transplant Vera Brunner-Sung’s first fictional work tackles displacement, transience and belonging in Montana.
One woman’s effort to survive the Great Recession in booming North Dakota.
A new provision lets tribes prosecute non-tribal members for violent crimes like rape for the first time.
Conservative transplants largely from California have taken over Kootenai County -- have they gone too far?
An Oregon artist reinterprets the region's timber wars.
A writer’s quest to find the people behind her great-grandfather’s New Mexico drawings.
A Custer impersonator confronts old and new racial tensions as he performs in a Battle of the Little Bighorn re-enactment in Montana.
American paternalism is on the outs in Indian Country
North Dakota's Three Affiliated Tribes have long wanted a stake in the state's occasional oil booms, but the size, scope and speed of the Bakken development caught them completely unprepared.
In New Mexico's San Juan County, a new ordinance contrasts upper class aesthetics against a rural lifestyle.
San Juan County, N.M., is a haven for junk cars -- and for the guys who fix them up.
EPA reevaluates trade secret status of toxic substances
The annual spring cleaning of its irrigation ditch brings tiny El Cerrito, N.M., together to work and celebrate.
And sings the sovereignty tune.
Tornadoes, fires, volcanoes, floods...and still no Doomsday.
The Yellowstone River Compact may not protect Montanans who rely on the Tongue River’s water.
A year after the spill, drilling could rebound, and profits too.
Western Governors' Association to consider recommendations on ag to urban use
Curator Kate Ware does something new with an old tradition
The photographer discusses landscape photography and her immersion in a tiny New Mexican town.
Layoffs at the DPA, and pleas for federal incentives
The latest on fracking, power companies, and Erin Brockovich
First round of big rigs lumber across Montana
Uranium stocks fall amidst reactor safety concerns.
Cumulative impacts are the not-so-new "Big Thing"
The Imperial Visions Action Network is an interactive website that involves locals in reporting - and helping solve - environmental problems.
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