Tribal Land

A federal appeals court says the U.S. government failed to consider the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions that would result from the approval of nearly 200 drilling permits issued in an area surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

A white state lawmaker in Montana is questioning whether land set aside long ago for Native Americans should exist anymore.

According to the new guidelines, all investigators will be trained to employ a victim-centered, trauma-informed and culturally responsive approach to criminal investigations.

Tribes now have a collective 20,000 bison and that’s been growing steadily along with a desire among many Native Americans to reclaim stewardship of an animal their predecessors lived alongside and depended upon for millennia.

The Tohono O’odham Nation and the Gila River Indian Community argue the that requirements will disenfranchise Native voters as it will leave many tribal members unable to register to vote.

A Utah-based Native American tribe criticized the White House again for not adequately consulting its leaders ahead of this week’s creation of a national monument on ancestral lands in Colorado.

Indigenous leaders called on Congress to reverse a Supreme Court ruling that expands the state’s ability to prosecute crimes on tribal lands.

The bills would create a new tribal cultural area designation and require Native input on any decision on those lands.

Two tribal communities in New Mexico are working to ensure they'll be free from federal interference if they take part in that state’s cannabis market set to launch in April.

A new app connects shoppers with more than 500 Native-owned businesses in the Southwest, from beauty salons to food carts to car repair shops. It’s called…