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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
Berkeley burial mound
Politics

Bay Area parking lot company takes $27 million deal to give 5,700-year-old Native burial mound back to Ohlone tribe

By Olga R. Rodriguez and The Associated Press
March 13, 2024
White House salmon
Environment

Biden brokers $1 billion deal with Oregon, Washington, 4 Columbia River tribes to revive Northwest salmon population

By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
February 24, 2024
N. Scott Momaday
Success

N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer winner and giant of Native American literature, dies at Santa Fe home at 89 years old

By Hillel Italie and The Associated Press
January 31, 2024
Lily Gladstone
Success

‘This is for every little rez kid’: Lily Gladstone makes history as Golden Globes’ first indigenous best actress winner

By Jonathan Landrum Jr. and The Associated Press
January 8, 2024
Minnesota
Politics

Minnesota just designed a new state flag explicitly intended to be less racist. Here’s what they changed (everything)

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
January 3, 2024
Native American road signs
Politics

U.S. road signs feature (Native) American languages for a change as 7 states honor indigenous tribes

By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
December 20, 2023
Joe Biden
Politics

Biden to sign executive order making it easier for Native Americans to access federal funds

By Colleen Long, Susan Montoya Bryan and The Associated Press
December 6, 2023
Wilma Mankiller Barbie
Retail

Native Americans rip Mattel for Wilma Mankiller Barbie that says ‘Chicken’ instead of ‘Cherokee’

By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
December 5, 2023
Dignitaries break ground with shovels on the site of a new transmission line
Environment

Native American tribes halt a $10 billion renewable energy project running through religious and cultural sites

By Susan Montoya Bryan and The Associated Press
November 14, 2023
Washington state
Environment

Tire industry scrambles to replace 60-year-old chemical hazardous to salmon: ‘One of the biggest environmental issues that the world hasn’t known about’

By Mark Thiessen and The Associated Press
November 5, 2023
Wilbur Slockish, left, Carol Logan, center, and Johnny Jackson
Environment

After a 15-year fight that reached the Supreme Court, the feds are restoring the ‘Place of Big Big Trees’ after building a road through it

By Claire Rush and The Associated Press
October 6, 2023
Dineh Benally

A Navajo and Taiwanese-owned illegal weed farm in New Mexico forced Chinese immigrants to work 14 hours a day, lawsuit claims

By Susan Montoya Bryan, Rio Yamat and The Associated Press
September 29, 2023
Grand Coulee Dam
Environment

The White House is trying to correct a ‘historic wrong,’ spending $200 million to restore salmon to ancestral fishing grounds in the Northwest

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September 26, 2023
The Klamath River runs brown with mud after flash floods hit
Environment

$500 million dam removal restoring river that local tribes call ‘our church’ is the biggest in U.S. history

By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
July 31, 2023

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