2024 Native Lands & Sacred Places News Stories (Land Back, Treaty Rights, Tribal Homelands, Historic Protections) News Stories
Oak Flat copper mine lawsuit is headed to the Supreme Court after 9th Circuit ruling (AZ Central) 5/14/2024
Forgotten keepers of the Rio Grande Delta (Texas Observer) 5/13/2024
Chinook Indian Nation closer to resecuring ancestral winter village (ICT) 5/9/2024
Arizona wants to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon. Tribal nations are fighting back. (Grist) 5/6/2024
Biden expands two national monuments in California by 120,000 acres (Native News Online) 5/2/2024
Federal land on Wind River Reservation could go to BLM or Northern Arapaho, Eastern Shoshone Tribes (Wyoming Public Media) 4/29/2024
Conservationists and Native Tribes fight for the protection of the Owyhee Canyonlands (KMVT Idaho) 4/27/2024
Tribes who helped create new national monument near Grand Canyon want to help manage it (Fronteras) 4/25/2024
UPDATE: Tohono O’odham Nation responds after judge rejects injunction for SunZia transmission project (KOLD Arizona) 4/17/2024
U.S. court rejects a request by tribes to block $10 billion energy transmission project in Arizona (PBS) 4/17/2024
Apache Stronghold appeals Oak Flat copper mine case to full 9th Circuit Appeals Court (AZ Central) 4/15/2024
Draft plan released for Bears Ears National Monument (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 4/15/2024
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe celebrates legal victory over land in trust (Cape and Islands NPR) 4/3/2024
New online collection seeks to foster Native co-stewardship of public lands (Boise State Public Radio) 3/28/2024
Winnebago Tribe closer than ever to reclaiming land seized by government (Sioux City Journal) 3/28/2024
Who will stop the ‘ticking time bomb’ across Native lands? (Prism) 3/26/2024
California Tribe becomes the first to manage land with National Park Service (The Guardian) 3/20/2024
The massive copper mine that could test the limits of religious freedom (Grist) 3/19/2024
Dark history, hopes for future mix as Minnesota transfers state park to Dakota Tribe (Minnesota Star Tribune) 3/15/2024
Tribes and the feds will try to co-manage a national monument for the first time. Here’s what that could look like. (The Salt Lake Tribune) 3/8/2024
Why Alaska Natives like me oppose the landless bill (Juneau Empire) 3/7/2024
US circuit court rules against preservation of Oak Flats sacred site (Native News Online) 3/3/2024
How states make money off Tribal lands (High Country News) 2/28/2024
Members, allies of Mohawk Nation protest land settlement talks in downtown Syracuse (Daily Orange) 2/26/2024
Native American Tribes gain new authority to stop unwanted hydropower projects (U.S. News & World Report) 2/23/2024
University of Minnesota to return 3,400 acres to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe (Native News Online) 2/21/2024
Federal energy regulators deny permits for a controversial project on the Navajo Nation (Wyoming Public Radio) 2/20/2024
‘Simply green colonialism’ | Feds move forward with Oregon off shore wind project, despite Tribal objections (Native News Online) 2/14/2024
Arizona republicans sue Biden over his Grand Canyon monument (Arizona Mirror) 2/12/2024
The extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land (Grist) 2/7/2024
Native leaders urge Congress to bolster funding for land consolidation in Indian Country (Tribal Business News) 2/4/2024
Great Basin Tribes want Bahsahwahbee massacre site in Nevada named national monument (Star Tribune) 1/24/2024
Upper Sioux community to reacquire current state park land where ancestors are buried (Native News Online) 1/24/2024
Tribes sue to stop work on SunZia power line through San Pedro Valley (Arizona Daily Star) 1/22/2024
Biden protected the lands surrounding the Grand Canyon. Uranium mining is happening there anyway. (Grist) 1/18/2024
Native landowners file to intervene in feud between BIA, Tesoro Pipeline (Native News Online) 1/17/2024
Feds seek public input on potentially opening millions of acres of Alaska wilderness lands (Alaska Public Media) 1/5/2024
Lincoln, Native American protesters resolve lawsuit over Wilderness Crossing development (Nebraska Examiner) 1/4/2024
Lincolnites and city reach settlement in Niskithe prayer camp land dispute (ACLU Nebraska) 1/4/2024