2024 Native Lands & Sacred Places News Stories (Land Back, Treaty Rights, Tribal Homelands, Historic Protections) News Stories
Will Bears Ears survive a second Trump Administration? (Backpacker) 12/17/2024
More than a century after their land was ravaged by the California gold rush, Yurok Tribe to reclaim territory (CBS News) 12/16/2024
Toward solidarity: reparations and Land Back on California’s horizon (Nonprofit Quarterly) 12/12/2024
NATIVE LAND: Transfers mark wins for Tribes in Alaska, Missouri, and East Coast (Tribal Business News) 12/7/2024
‘More than 100 years of taking’ | Tribal citizens in Wind River plan protest of land grab (Native News Online) 12/4/2024
Native leaders draft bill to regain some of sacred Black Hills (ICT) 12/2/2024
Sacred mound returned to Osage Nation (Native News Online) 11/22/2024
Lawsuit claims oil and gas leasing process cheated Oklahoma tribal landowners (KTUL Tulsa ABC 8) 11/20/2024
Brown University transfers 255 acres in Bristol, R.I., to the Pokanoket Indian Tribe: ‘We are the original stewards’ (Boston Globe) 11/20/2024
Native Americans press Biden to designate three new national monuments in California (LA Times) 11/19/2024
Land Back movement gains ground, but full tribal control still out of reach (Voices of America News) 11/16/2024
New digital hub aims to streamline tribal consultation process (Tribal Business News) 11/9/2024
Judge extends lithium drilling freeze, a major win for the Hualapai Tribe (AZ Mirror) 11/7/2024
National Park Service issues landmark order for tribal consultations (Native News Online) 11/5/2024
A ‘first step’ toward landback: Tribes call for three new monuments in California (Grist) 10/31/2024
Native Americans living at the Grand Canyon are fighting to shut down a nearby uranium mine [video] (NBC Nightly News) 10/26/2024
In coastal Louisiana, a sacred mound is returned to the Native American Tribe who built it (Mississippi Public Broadcasting) 10/25/2024
Languishing land: Santee Sioux members say federal mismanagement is costing them thousands each year (Flatwater Free Press) 10/23/2024
Settlement enshrines Jemez Pueblo's rights to use part of the Valles Caldera for cultural practices (Albuquerque Journal) 10/19/2024
Native American cultural site forgotten in Iowa, preserved in South Dakota (Iowa Capital Dispatch) 10/18/2024
Tribal land: new sanctuary, land returns, Native housing initiatives (Tribal Business News) 10/17/2024
Reclaiming tribal lands at Muddy Ridge (Greater Yellowstone Coalition) 10/16/2024
Biden administration weighs establishing sacred Indigenous site in Arctic refuge after request from Tribes (Anchorage Daily News) 10/16/2024
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe files new lawsuit over DAPL; questions raised over drilling mud (Bismarck Tribune) 10/16/2024
Onondaga Nation receives 1,000 acres of ancestral land as part of Onondaga Lake cleanup deal (WRVO NPR Central New York) 9/30/2024
Big day for Bears Ears: Appeals court hears arguments in case challenging Utah national monuments (Utah News Dispatch) 9/26/2024
Challenge to Antiquities Act threatens wildlife, Indigenous sites, cherished lands (Tribal Gaming and Hospitality) 9/24/2024
Where fire back means land back (Yes! Magazine) 9/23/2024
Lucas-backed farm bill would block return of Fort Reno to Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes (NonDoc) 9/23/2024
The Smoky Mountains’ highest peak returns to Native American name (CNN) 9/19/2024
The latest on the Land Back movement, in which Native American Tribes reclaim land (NPR) 9/18/2024
Nebraska Tribe pays $65K a year to rent land on its own reservation. It wants it back. (Flatwater Free Press) 9/18/2024
Hualapai Tribe seeks federal protection for sacred spring (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 9/17/2024
Trust issues: how schools, hospitals, and prisons in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 Tribal Nations (Grist) 9/16/2024
‘Above the poison’: Mohawk land defenders refuse to surrender Barnhart Island to New York (The Narwhal) 9/14/2024
Apache Stronghold takes its case against Oak Flat copper mine to the Supreme Court (AZ Central) 9/11/2024
Federal judge denies Tribal Nations’ bid to join Grand Canyon Nation Monument lawsuit (Arizona Public Media) 9/11/2024
Ishkode: How 'good fire' could reshape the forests and culture of northeastern Minnesota (Project Optimist) 9/4/2024
Secretary Haaland upholds protections for 28 million acres of Alaska public lands (Native News Online) 9/4/2024
Tribes fear federal solar plan could threaten proposed Bahsahwahbee national monument (Nevada Current) 9/4/2024
Indigenous-led tourism alliances are taking back recreation on their land (Sierra Club Magazine) 9/1/2024
Quechan Tribe’s sacred lands near national monument status (Holtville Tribune) 8/30/2024
Tribes seek protection of traditional cultural landscape through better land management (the Nevada Independent) 8/30/2024
Sioux Nation, U.S. Forest Service forge joint stewardship framework for Black Hills (Buffalo's Fire) 8/27/2024
Washington congressman introduces bill that would return land to Quinault Indian Nation (The Olympian) 8/27/2024
Alaska appeals federal court ruling that was a step toward new ‘Indian Country’ here (Alaska Beacon) 8/23/2024
Judge blocks Arizona lithium drilling that Tribe says is threat to sacred lands (ABC News) 8/21/2024
Apache Stronghold heads to the east (Popular Resistance) 8/20/2024
Hualapai Tribe sues feds over lithium mining project near sacred spring (Arizona Mirror) 8/19/2024
Washington solar project paused amid concern about Indigenous sites (High Country News) 8/12/2024
Tribe sues interior department over approval of Arizona lithium project (Inside Climate News) 8/8/2024
National monument proposed at site of 3 Native American massacres in Nevada (CBS 8 News Now Las Vegas) 7/30/2024
‘It’s justice for the Tribe’: Kootenai Tribe of Idaho restores what used to be a landfill (Idaho Capital Sun) 7/30/2024
Land back: Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska get back 1,600 acres that were illegally taken by US 50 years ago (Native News Online) 7/19/2024
The state senator leading efforts to return land to Tribal Nations (Grist) 7/19/2024
Missile silo construction could threaten sacred sites (Lakota Times) 7/17/2024
Public wants indigenous knowledge to manage Bears Ears National Monument (Native News Online) 7/11/2024
Honoring tribal co-stewardship (USDA Forest Service Feature Stories) 7/10/2024
A new program invites national park visitors to donate to Native American Tribes (Conde Nast Traveler) 7/10/2024
Barron County is enlisting volunteers to preserve 25 Native burial mounds (Wisconsin Public Radio) 7/5/2024
A Biden effort to conserve oceans is leaving out Indigenous Peoples, report finds (Grist) 7/3/2024
House subcommittee considers bills to expand tribal land trust authority (Native News Online) 6/28/2024
Federal judge says Alaska Tribes may put land into trust, a step toward ‘Indian Country’ here (Alaska Beacon) 6/26/2024
Where the buffalo roamed: Bill would return herds to ancestral Native American lands (Cronkite News) 6/25/2024
In green energy boom, one federal agency made the Yakama Nation an offer they had to refuse (High Country News) 6/24/2024
Illinois may soon give land to make up for what the US stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief (KEVN Black Hills Fox) 6/23/2024
A below-the-radar public lands decision with big implications for Alaska Native communities (Center for American Progress) 6/21/2024
U.S. Senate unanimously passes bill to return land to Nebraska’s Winnebago Tribe (KOLN Nebraska) 6/20/2024
Investigation reveals how universities profit off land taken from Indigenous people (PBS) 6/18/2024
Report finds Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion of land expropriated from Tribal nations (ABC) 6/14/2024
1,000-acres of landback for the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (Native News Online) 6/13/2024
Native American Tribe is on a preservation mission as it celebrates trust status for ancestral lands (The Daily News - Galveston County) 6/12/2024
Judge dismisses Native American challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project in Arizona (ABC News) 6/6/2024
Uranium mining still threatens the Grand Canyon, our Tribe's sacred home (AZ Central) 6/5/2024
A Washington state Tribe will get paid by a railroad that trespassed (The Chronicle Washington) 6/4/2024
Tribal land roundup: recent land deals, trust acquisitions, and noteworthy developments (Tribal Business News) 5/31/2024
California’s U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, Representative Mike Thompson, local Tribes, Bureau of Land Management announce historic co-stewardship agreement, celebrate expansion of Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument (Sierra Sun Times) 5/31/2024
State won't be trading land with Native American tribe after legislation stalls (The Center Square Illinois) 5/31/2024
Buffalo project helps restore prairie while reconnecting Indigenous Tribes with heritage (Indy Star) 5/29/2024
Making land back a reality: an urban Indigenous land trust rises in California (Nonprofit Quarterly) 5/28/2024
What’s the difference between Indigenous nations co-managing or co-stewarding their land? A lot. (Grist) 5/24/2024
Damage trial underway in Osage County and Tribal wind farm fight (OK Energy Today) 5/21/2024
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
