2024 Native Lands & Sacred Places News Stories (Land Back, Treaty Rights, Tribal Homelands, Historic Protections) News Stories
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