The newly designated old-growth forest lies within a landscape shaped by Indigenous peoples for 5,000 to 6,000 years.

From Klamath paddling to Mojave hiking, Indigenous guides show new ways to explore and care for California’s standout ...

So it is worth studying the last time America took over 2m sparsely populated, richly endowed, strateg­ically located square kilometres. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson pulled off the Louisiana ...

Live Science reports that artifacts unearthed in the Fones Cliffs area of Virginia’s Rappahannock River may provide evidence of a village described by English colonist John Smith, who was elected ...

California Natural Resources Agency program helped put 896 acres near Yosemite into the hands of the Southern Sierra Miwuk ...

In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. As for Louisiana, the state is home to more ...

The South Sierra Miwuk Nation has reattained nearly 900 acres bordering Yosemite National Park — 175 years after the tribe was expelled from the lands.

Members of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation plan to manage their newly acquired wilderness in keeping with traditional stewardship practices.

Inside a Native American casino in Wisconsin, cards shuffle atop green felt tables and coins clink into metal trays. The Ho-Chunk Nation has offered gambling since 1982. But the real game is happening ...