The Latest Breaking News on Native America

The U.S. Department of Energy hopes to use nearly $15 million in federal grants to boost clean energy development at tribal colleges and universities around the country

Black and Latino Californians who were displaced from a neighborhood in Palm Springs are seeking $2.3 billion in compensation from the city

Payment represents acknowledgment government and British Columbia have failed to honour treaty signed in 1899

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Friday on a trip to Las Vegas that the newly designated Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada marks a new era of conservation

The Biden administration floated two ideas this week for how Western states and Native American tribes could reduce their water use from the dwindling Colorado River

A Texas newborn’s recent removal from home illustrates the cruel treatment Black families face for their childcare decisions

The discovery of a body in Canada has brought renewed focus to the disproportionately high rate of disappearances and murders of First Nations women, and to the country’s troubled relationship with its indigenous population. 

The sexual abuse trial of a “Dances With Wolves” actor charged in Nevada is on hold indefinitely

Greenpeace report finds heavy machinery made by South Korean firm contributing to destruction of Brazilian rainforest

Imagine that a giant mining company announces plans to dig down deep beneath the Vatican to extract precious minerals, collapsing St. Peter’s Basilica into a cavernous pit. While this unlikely scenario would be met with near-universal outrage, it’s effectively what’s happening in southeastern Arizona, to almost no national scrutiny.

Tribal leaders in Arizona say they hope to persuade the Biden administration to create protections for areas adjacent to the Grand Canyon, which they consider sacred