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The city of Tucson is returning a portion of ancestral land to the Tohono O’odham Nation in a new resolution unanimously passed by the City Council this week. The nearly 11-acre stretch of land is located at the base of Sentinel Peak, a more than 2,000 foot peak southwest of what is today downtown Tucson. The Santa Cruz river runs right next to one side of the mountain's base and the Tohono O’odham’s Hohokam ancestors have farmed and lived there for more than 4,500 years.Mayor Regina Romero calls it the birthplace of Tucson.

PHOENIX (AP) — Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider sacred say they are increasingly worried U.S. officials will publish an environmental …

The Gila River Indian Community will receive up to $233 million in funding for conservation agreements that will help the tribe and other water users along the Colorado River Basin protect the stability and sustainability of the Colorado River System.

An Idaho federal judge granted a partial win to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in their challenge to a U.S. Department of the Interior land transfer for the expansion of a phosphogypsum plant, saying the agency violated a 1900 federal law that limits the disposal of treaty-ceded lands.

Southern New England, today, is a de facto exception to much of U.S. Indian law and policy, with progress sustained by Indigenous peoples in the region at a bar

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American Indian people know all too well the impact of pandemics on human populations, having barely survived smallpox outbreaks and other diseases tr

UArizona Health Sciences shipped 250 COVID-19 sample collection kits to the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, which has been particularly hard hit by the new coronavirus.

Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.

Misclassification raises fears of hidden health emergencies in one of the country’s most vulnerable populations

The FBI said these rehab groups are not giving the proper care promised to patients and are still receiving federal funds.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday he is establishing national monuments on more than half a million acres in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary in U.S. waters near the Pacific Remote Islands southwest of Hawaii.

The US Forest Service is expected to re-issue a key …

The tribe says an 1868 treaty means the federal government has a duty to ensure its people have sufficient water on a reservation where thousands do not have running water.

The Navajo Nation goes before the Supreme Court in a water rights case it says is about ending nearly two centuries of injustice.

The transfers marked another example of Indigenous people reclaiming stewardship over the land and animals that their ancestors managed for thousands of years.

Two Native people share how the Indian Child Welfare Act impacted their lives as the law faces a challenge at the Supreme Court.

The US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rejected the Biden administration’s defense of oil and gas fracking in the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico.

Proposed legislation would codify the rights of Indigenous students to wear tribal regalia.

Indian law is a framework for making decisions about Indigenous sovereignty and peoples, but recent Supreme Court rulings create new debates despite centuries of precedents

A federal judge has ordered the Biden administration to reinstate a drilling lease that has been in dispute for decades on land near the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

A groundbreaking free-tuition program has administrators determining who qualifies. It’s harder than it looks.

PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he’s driving into park. Within seconds, he unrolls a fire hose and opens a hydrant, sending water flowing into one of the plastic tanks on the truck’s flat bed.

Since it was established last year, the Indigenous Resilience Center has added to its roster experts who have long worked with and for Native American communities. University leaders hope tribes can

The tribe recently renewed its campaign for Congress to seat its delegate in the House of Representatives -- a right stipulated by the 1835 Treaty of New Echota.

The justices will decide whether the federal government has a duty to address the tribe's right to access Colorado River waters.

To Phenocia Bauerle, the words “land-grant college” carry a particular weight. A member of the Apsáalooke tribe, she grew up in Montana, a state where, as she puts it, “it’s understood what a land-grant institution means: It means Native land was taken.”

A federal judge has ruled Canadian energy firm Enbridge trespassed on Bad River tribal lands and profited at the tribe’s expense but stopped short of shutting down an oil and gas pipeline across the Bad River reservation.

The microcampus's initial curriculum will include the Indigenous Governance Program courses jointly offered by the James E. Rogers College of Law and Native Nations Institute for Leadership,