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Country club settles dispute over lease of 2,000-year-old sacred ceremonial grounds
Finance

Country club settles dispute over lease of 2,000-year-old sacred ceremonial grounds

By Julie Carr Smyth and The Associated Press
August 1, 2024
Navajo Nation plans to block federal highways to stop uranium from being transported on its land
Environment

Navajo Nation plans to block federal highways to stop uranium from being transported on its land

By Felicia Fonseca and The Associated Press
July 31, 2024
A silhouetted person next to an exhibit of bones
Politics

Half a year after museums closed Native American exhibits, tribes are still waiting for the return of sacred items

By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
July 29, 2024
Gina M. Raimondo
Environment

Coastal communities get $575 million to combat floods and climate threats

By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
July 26, 2024
Marathon Oil Lee Tillman holding his hands in a weird way
Environment

Marathon Oil reaches historic $241 million settlement with EPA—the largest-ever penalty for violating the Clean Air Act

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July 11, 2024
BNSF Railway must pay $400m to a Native American tribe for intentionally trespassing by running 100-car crude oil trains over its reservation
Finance

BNSF Railway must pay $400m to a Native American tribe for intentionally trespassing by running 100-car crude oil trains over its reservation

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press
June 18, 2024
Nevada is expanding electronic voting for Native American tribes. That ‘high-risk activity’ has some election security experts worried
Politics

Nevada is expanding electronic voting for Native American tribes. That ‘high-risk activity’ has some election security experts worried

By Christina A. Cassidy and The Associated Press
June 10, 2024
Country club seeks higher price in leasing of 2,000-year-old sacred ceremonial grounds
Finance

Country club seeks higher price in leasing of 2,000-year-old sacred ceremonial grounds

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May 28, 2024
Native American tribes approve proposal to ensure their Colorado River water rights—a deal that could become the most expensive enacted by Congress
Politics

Native American tribes approve proposal to ensure their Colorado River water rights—a deal that could become the most expensive enacted by Congress

By Susan Montoya Bryan and The Associated Press
May 24, 2024
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem
Politics

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is banned from nearly 20% of her own state as fight with Native American tribes heats up

By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
May 11, 2024
cannabis plant
Health

Pot is illegal in North Carolina—except on Cherokee land where medical cannabis sales just started

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April 21, 2024
Joe Biden
Retail

Snack-shop chain sued over alleged racial discrimination in hiring of Black, mixed-race and Native American employees

By Michael Rubinkam and The Associated Press
April 19, 2024
Tohono O'odham
Environment

Judge throws out tribes’ legal challenge to $10 billion power line running through ‘one of the most intact, prehistoric and historical … landscapes in southern Arizona’

By Susan Montoya Bryan and The Associated Press
April 17, 2024
Bear Butte State Park
Politics

Native American movement to buy back land boosted by nonprofit’s purchase of ‘one of the most sacred places for the Lakota Nation’

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April 15, 2024
Yurok tribe
Environment

California tribe that lost 90% of its land during the Gold Rush get back 126 acres with the world’s tallest trees

By Julie Watson and The Associated Press
March 20, 2024

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