Fourteen land-grant universities benefit from money made off “trust lands,” or lands taken from Native Americans and managed by the states in which they’re located to produce income to sustain these ...

Over the last several years, an odd ritual known as a "land acknowledgment" has become the fashionable way to begin academic, arts and other elite events. Like a woke version of the "Pledge of ...

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 ...

In canceling the projects in February, FERC cited concerns raised by the Navajo Nation, including negative impacts on water, cultural and natural resources and biological diversity. Signs at an ...

Some Native American reservations span more territory than entire U.S. states. This is a fact that surprises many. These are not just symbolic homelands but substantial pieces of land with their own ...

Wilson Walker joined KPIX 5 in July 2007. After 10 years producing newscasts, Wilson became a Multimedia Journalist (MMJ) in 2012, meaning he shoots, writes and edits all of his own stories. More than ...

Native Americans are subject to federal income taxes, while tribes set their own sales taxes Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), licensed realtor and educator with over 35 years of ...

For Indigenous people, Native American Heritage Month carries a different weight this year. Since 1990, November has been a time for America’s first people to share their culture, traditions, music, ...

The impact of fire on land, the environment, health and communities, a topic often discussed in California, is often dominated by expressions of sensationalism. Photos: Oakland Museum of California ...

In 2019, historian Lukas Rieppel published a book about the history of dinosaur fossils and their excavation in the late 1800s to create museum displays. But an entire facet of the story didn't make ...

WASHINGTON — An Alaska land-grant program allotting free wilderness tracts in the far reaches of the state to qualifying Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans and their heirs passed the Senate on Tuesday ...