In Amanda Subish’s family, they have a story about her Uncle Maurice that shows the power of Indigenous culture, heritage, and traditional ecological knowledge. Maurice Magante, of the Pauma Band of ...

For decades, global conservation efforts relied heavily on one dominant philosophy: protect nature by removing people from it. Forests became “preserves,” rivers became “resources,” and entire ...

Habitat protection expands on Oregon’s North Coast For Indigenous people of the Oregon Coast, land and water are not ...

Native American backpackers in Northeast Oregon’s Joseph Canyon stop to savor their connection with the land during a backpacking trip in January 2018. The canyon was named after the legendary Chief ...

Whether stewardship rights, such as those granted through land trusts and the like, constitute Land Back is a great question. The question and its framing are instructive of the very issues the ...

Montaukett leader David Pharaoh fought for indigenous land rights – and established a lasting legacy as the founder of America’s first Montaukett school. Untold is a free collection of short, ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jenny Creek (Photo/Klamath Indigenous Land Trust) As salmon return to the headwaters of the Klamath River for the first time in ...

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here by permission. Steven Amos feels hopeful for once. He’s finishing a drug and alcohol treatment program, living in a halfway house, ...

Twenty months ago, Durango City Council decided the city needed an official statement acknowledging the cultural heritage and history of the land it was built on. This week, City Council was presented ...

"At COP30, countries rarely discussed the rights of indigenous peoples. Most progress for these groups took place outside the ...