It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi ...

Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in ...

In 1998, California voters overwhelmingly approved gambling casinos on Indian reservations. Two years later, they ratified contracts negotiated by former Governor Gray Davis with 61 Indian tribes. Now ...

Tule elk are released onto the Tule River Indian Reservation in Tulare County on Oct. 22. (Travis VanZant / California Department of Fish and Wildlife) In the scrub-brush foothills between the long ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago ...

As work proceeds to remove four dams along the Klamath River, more than the salmon runs will be restored: The lands long buried by the now-drained reservoirs will be reclaimed by the people who were ...

The annual San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Pow Wow last year at Cal State San Bernardino. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) One September afternoon in 2016, I sat on a bench in front of the ...

Seven Native American tribes say that about 100 card clubs are operating "banked" casino games involving a "house" that players bet against, in violation of state laws granting exclusivity of these ...

Monday, October 13 is Indigenous People’s Day. Between 1776 and 1887, the U.S. seized more than 1.5 billion acres from Native Americans by treaty and executive order. According to the National Park ...