Native Americans press Biden to designate national monuments in California
A Native American-led coalition is pressing the Biden administration to designate three new national monuments in California, with some fearing the chance to protect these…
What Trump’s election means for the California environment
As a candidate, President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly professed his love of clean air and water, but he also dismissed climate change as a hoax, railed…
Biden to apologize for 150-year Native American boarding school policy
PHOENIX — President Biden will formally apologize to Native Americans on Friday for a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated Indian children from…
Eerie pics show tribe posing with dead relatives dug up in ritual as corpses are dressed & given cigarettes
AN Indonesian tribe digs up their dead family and pose with their corpses for photos in a bizarre ritual.The Torajan on the island of Sulawesi…
One of Disneyland’s original rides plans to remove racist tropes
Disneyland is set to to update one of its oldest rides to correct racist tropes about Indigenous people.Peter Pan’s Flight, one of the original theme…
‘Peter Pan’ musical updated for Indigenous representation
Raye Zaragoza was just a child when she first auditioned to play Tiger Lily. It was the late ’90s, yet another “Peter Pan” project was…
Newsom backs tribal land return amid dam removal project
More than a century has passed since members of the Shasta Indian Nation saw the last piece of their ancestral home — a landscape along…
‘Sovereign flex’: How a tribe defied a US state with a cannabis superstore | Indigenous Rights News
Cherokee, North Carolina – In a converted bingo hall deep in the Appalachian Mountains, Myrtle Driver led the charge to defy the state of North…
Why many California Indian tribes still lack U.S. recognition
Book Review Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians By Olivia M. ChilcoteUniversity of Washington Press: 218 pages,…
Holding Up the Sky: Saving the Indigenous Yanomami tribe in Brazil’s Amazon | Indigenous Rights
A Brazilian tribal leader warns that illegal mining in forests will have dire consequences for the rest of the world. Davi Kopenawa is a tribal…
Letters: Bidding farewell to Caitlin Clark, NCAA tournaments
South Carolina is an amazing undefeated national championship team. The NCAA not awarding Most Outstanding Player in the tournament to Caitlin Clark is a travesty.…
Oregon tribe’s casino bid sparks furor over what land they call home
YREKA, Calif. — It was midafternoon at the Rain Rock Casino in this faded Gold Rush town, and Jody Criner had just won $47 on the…
Old Northern California rail track could become 300-mile hiking trail
More than a century ago, a railroad was constructed to shuttle passengers and redwood logs between San Francisco and Humboldt Bay. Now the since-abandoned train…
The Indian ‘lost tribe’ that wants to move to Israel, even ‘fight Hamas’ | Religion
Aizawl, India – Joseph Haokip, an undergraduate student in Manipur, is excited at the thought of going to Israel. He is ready to join the…
Tribal leaders say California’s Feather Alert has problems
SACRAMENTO — When Yurok tribal member Danielle Ipiña-Vigil disappeared in San Francisco last summer, her family requested that state police issue a Feather Alert — an…
Their stolen land was given back. Now they’re ready to heal
As far back as 9,000 years ago, the Acjachemen and Tongva people hunted, fished and foraged for nuts and berries at Bolsa Chica Mesa. This…
Washington state’s Makah Tribe might resume whale hunts soon
1 of 5 | A Makah whaling crew returns to the Neah Bay, Wash., marina docks after a morning practice in 1998. On Friday, the…
These California Republicans put tribe over country by backing Jordan
Remember their names. On Tuesday, 11 of California’s 12 GOP House members put tribal loyalty above the country’s best interests and heedlessly cast their votes…
Deep inside Amazon, a tribe tries to preserve Indigenous culture | Arts and Culture
The Indigenous adolescents danced in a circle under the thatched-roof hut from nearly dawn to dusk while parents looked on from the perimeter. Some of…
Indigenous advocates decry Cartier’s use of Amazon tribe images | Business and Economy News
Until two months ago, Cartier’s website showed Yanomami children playing in a green field. The French luxury jewelry brand said it was working to promote…