This article is part of Native News Online’s America 250: A Republic Built on Native Land initiative. As the United States ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the roughly 1,300 square miles of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwest Minnesota, tribal members harvest wild rice in waters that have sustained them for generations. They've been ...

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, ...

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 ...

In 2018, journalist Rebecca Nagle was closely following a Supreme Court case then called Carpenter v. Murphy (later renamed Sharp v. Murphy). As she wrote at the time, the court’s ruling could “result ...

Nearly 400 acres of agricultural land mauka of Ritz- Carlton Turtle Bay Resort on the North Shore will be stewarded by a Native Hawaiian-led land restoration group, the resort’s parent company said in ...

Native American Heritage Month, just concluded, represents an interesting tension for educators. There’s a drive to celebrate culture—and why not, when Native culture is so frequently overlooked or ...

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, we ask a foundational question often left out of the national ...

NY Times Project Recasts Founding as Native Land Grab ...