The native tribes of California saw themselves as stewards not owners of the land. The white settlers who arrived during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Editor's Note: This article is part of Native News Online's America 250: A Republic Built on Native Land initiative. As the United ...

My interest in Indigenous territorial claims began in my childhood. I grew up during the Native land claims era in Alaska. Throughout the twentieth century, Alaska Native people watched their lands ...

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...

Maps hold power. For millennia, the borders and place names represented on world maps signify who claims or possesses control of a geographic region. Through colonization, violent conquest or ...

Visiting a Native American reservation isn’t like going to a state park or national forest. These are sovereign nations with their own governments, police forces, and rules that every visitor has to ...

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi Native American woman and her daughter walked onto a 5-acre parcel of land, ...