This story was published in partnership with High Country News. Before Jon Eagle Sr. began working for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, he was an equine therapist for over 36 years, linking horses with ...

Washington’s Department of Natural Resources manages over 100,000 acres inside the border of the Yakama Nation. The lands are held in trust and managed to provide revenue for the state’s K-12 schools ...

Very few Indian tribes in the United States actually own all of their reservation land. For more than 40 years, a federal policy called allotment carved up most reservations into private parcels. Only ...

The Supreme Court’s holding in McGirt did not create new law, but rather affirmed that treaties are the supreme law of the land and that the Creek Nation’s reservation continues to exist absent clear ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

There’s a map tacked up on the wall in Kameron Runnels’ office – squared lines and small text showing who owns what pieces of the Santee Sioux reservation. Six of the squares, big chunks of land, are ...

Attorneys for a Wisconsin Native American tribe are set to argue Thursday that a federal judge should order an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline that the tribe says is at immediate risk of ...

MASHPEE, Mass. — The U.S. Department of the Interior has reversed a Trump administration order that rescinded the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's right to 321 acres of reservation land that helped establish ...

A map shows areas of the Bois Forte reservation returned to the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa in June 2022. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters overdeliver. Sign-up now for ...