Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...

Like many residents of Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, Jacques Powers wears clothes and boots painted with dirt and mud and gets around in a humming monster truck. But no matter where ...

The Fund for Santa Barbara has launched the Chumash Reparative Action Fund with an initial $25,000 offering that supports the Northern Chumash Tribal Council’s work to reclaim ancestral land at Dos ...

Native American backpackers in Northeast Oregon’s Joseph Canyon stop to savor their connection with the land during a backpacking trip in January 2018. The canyon was named after the legendary Chief ...

BLISS, MI – The word for fire in the Native language of Great Lakes Anishinaabe is “Ishkode.” Fire was a historically frequent and recurring element of the Michigan landscape before the era of fire ...

An order of Catholic nuns in Wisconsin recently returned land they had purchased in 1966 to the Indigenous tribe that originally settled it. During a ceremony with deep spiritual symbolism, the ...

Steven Amos feels hopeful for once. He’s finishing a drug and alcohol treatment program, living in a halfway house, and working a new job, doing carpentry. “I love anything outdoors,” he said. “I’m ...