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2026 Native Lands & Sacred Places News Stories (Land Back, Treaty Rights, Tribal Homelands, Historic Protections) News Stories

Apache women seek court intervention as federal land is turned over for copper mining (ABC News) 3/16/2026

US transfers sacred Oak Flat site to Resolution Copper, dealing blow to Tribal opponents (Cronkite News - Arizona PBS) 3/16/2026

Federal officials can honor bipartisan legacy of greater Chaco Canyon protections (Pew) 3/12/2026

Native American Tribes in the West are trying — and succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back (KJZZ NPR Phoenix) 3/11/2026

Chuckwalla National Monument’s defenders rally to save it (San Bernardino Sun) 3/10/2026

Utah lawmakers ask Congress to undo Grand Staircase-Escalante management plan (Aspen Public Radio) 3/5/2026

Indigenous Peoples decry permit allowing mineral drilling at sacred Black Hills site (IC Magazine) 2/28/2026

BLM nominee promises to protect national monument important to Tribes (AZ Central) 2/27/2026

LandBack advances across the West (High Country News) 2/16/2026

Washoe Tribe Completes historic 10,274-acre land return near Lake Tahoe (Native News Online) 2/10/2026

Fixing one byzantine process would return reservation lands to Tribes and improve landscape health (Ground Shift) 2/9/2026

Feds greenlight $2B renewable energy project on Yakama Nation sacred site (Washington State Standard) 2/2/2026

Tribes and environmental groups sound alarm about fate of one of Utah’s national monuments, Grand Staircase-Escalante (Salt Lake Tribune) 1/23/2026

Lawsuit between MHA Nation, North Dakota over mineral rights headed for trial (KFYR TV North Dakota) 1/16/2026

‘A holy place’: Preserving Native American culture in the Southwest (Deseret News) 1/11/2026

The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land. (Grist) 1/9/2026

Western Apaches return to 9th Circuit to defend holy land (Tucson Sentinel) 1/8/2026

Apache leader walks 60 miles to court hearing that will decide fate of Sacred Oak Flat (Native News Online) 1/6/2026

Trump veto stalls effort to expand Miccosukee Tribal lands (Native News Online) 1/2/2026

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