Standing Rock increased division in North Dakota between Indigenous communities and nearby non-Indigenous communities. Propaganda made it worse.

How the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.

At Permanent Forum, leaders connect climate change, mining, and deforestation to mounting health crisis and demand coordinated approach to land rights.

The gap between what international courts say and what governments do is stark.

Delegates are arriving in New York this week for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples. Amid other challenges, the U.S. has made it increasingly difficult for delegates to secure visas t...

Seven newsrooms based in the US, Canada, and New Zealand will work together to cover a range of issues, including the impact of armed conflicts and critical mineral mining.

The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.

Returning Indigenous land won't destroy civilization, it could save it.

A new report argues that English-only climate science and disaster alerts are excluding most of the world, and putting Indigenous communities at greater risk.

Historians say underpinning Trump's talk of national security lies a longstanding pattern of American entitlement to Native land.

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

After the tribe sued to stop an immigration detention center, the White House vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded Miccosukee land and environmental stewardship.

<p>Through the federal government’s university land-grant programs, which began with the Morrill Act in 1862 and continue today, Congress has systematically all

A webinar from UC Berkeley and the Indigenous Journalists Association offers reporters essential grounding in federal Indian law

Applications are open until October 31 to receive funding to attend major Indigenous gatherings in New York and Geneva next year.

The Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations are suing social media giants for their role in the growing mental health crisis for Indigenous young people.

The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.

The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.

The Miccosuki tribe alleges that both state and federal agents failed to conduct an environmental review of what the camp would to the Everglades.

An Indigenous religious site in Arizona has been granted a delay, as advocates hope to stop Trump's plan to turn it into a copper mine.

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.

The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern" of violence against Indigenous people who oppose corporate human rights abuses.

Without U.S. funding, Indigenous communities in Peru and elsewhere face increasing threats to their land, livelihoods, and human rights.

Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.

Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Pope Leo do the same?

Trump’s executive order defining sex made it clear that passport sex markers will now carry an ideological message. The constitution protects Americans from being forced to endorse ideological message...

(This story was published in partnership with The Associated Press.) In Wyoming, the Eastern Shoshone want to redefine how we see buffalo.

The Trump administration's border policies are expected to have a big impact on this year’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers.

Last year, four dams on the Klamath River were removed. For Indigenous nations in Oregon and California, it was a victory decades in the making.

High Country News, Mongabay, ICT, APTN, Whakaata Māori, IndigiNews, Osage News, the Associated Press, and Grist will report together and share their journalism among newsrooms.

When Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. looks at the Black Hills of South Dakota, he doesn’t just see its natural beauty, he also sees a scar cut deep into the heart of the universe.

According to Indigenous legal experts, the freeze erodes the little trust Indian country has in the federal government.

Experts say tribes are protesting federal agencies as Trump fast tracks oil and gas projects.

Grist spoke with five experts to understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of extraction.

“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”

Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

A new investiment of $250 million has been given to the Canadian company that plans to build a lithium mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada.

A former Greenpeace employee and Native activist who trained demonstrators during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests told jurors Tuesday that the environmental group never engaged in underhanded effo...

In Western legal systems, arguments against pollution or the destruction of the environment tend to focus exclusively on people: It’s wrong to contaminate a river, for example, because certain humans ...