$720 million goes directly to tribal nations, but compromises raise questions.
Indigenous Affairs
New designations could help meet conservation goals set by the administration.
As dam removal inches into view, fish have to survive increasingly compounding calamities.
In northern Arizona and southern Utah, shared experiences of the boarding school round-ups live with survivors to this day.
In Ogden, Utah, familiar questions of shared responsibility and shared histories surfaced —all at a three-day symposium on the railroad and Indian Country.
Growing traditions in northern New Mexico.
Amid historic drought and federal calls for cuts, tribes along the river face difficult choices.
Number one: Why are Indians spray-painting my Starbucks?
The former director of the University of Montana’s creative writing program reflects on life with her late husband and the upcoming James Welch Native Lit Festival.
Chi’chil Biłdagoteel exemplifies the larger struggle tribes face over protecting off-reservation, culturally important lands.
Native advocates share their hopes and relief after decades of fighting for their ancestral lands.
Four federal Indian law experts digest the Supreme Court’s ‘shocking‘ decision to grant state governments the power to prosecute crimes in Indian Country.
If the U.S. ever hopes to be in right relationship with the lands and waters it has seized, it must first restore its relationship with Indigenous peoples.
Thousands of salmon escaped into the Puget Sound. Then the controversy began.
Three years ago, the Supreme Court upheld the Crow Tribe’s off-reservation hunting rights. But treaty hunters in Wyoming still risk prosecution, even as non-Natives poach wildlife on tribal land with impunity.
Willamette Falls used to be a public place of laughter and sharing. It could be again, if painful politics don’t eclipse revitalization efforts.
As the Cherokee Nation’s first female chief’s image is minted onto a coin, her full humanity should be examined.
Chemicals dumped in the 1970s are still seeping into the food chain. But the Yurok Tribe is confident their birds will be OK.
Hunters, dairy farmers, utility operators, loggers, government agents and conservationists have all supported the tribe in helping North America’s largest land-based birds.
After decades of back-and-forth with federal authorities, the matrilineal descendants of Chief Seattle want federal recognition, once and for all.
Alisha Murphy discusses her vision of a robust tribal economy and the importance of community input.
Tribal communities in Arizona and Utah face environmental problems connected to the same radioactive resource: uranium.
At the close of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, leaders urge greater protections for human rights.
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