2025 Native Lands & Sacred Places News Stories (Land Back, Treaty Rights, Tribal Homelands, Historic Protections) News Stories
Supreme Court turns down Apaches' bid to block copper mine on sacred site (CBS News) 5/27/2025
What will happen to Bears Ears monument under Trump? Tribes fear loss of sacred spaces (AZ Central) 5/25/2025
In the name of efficiency, Navajo president calls on Trump administration to preserve Bears Ears (Utah News Dispatch) 5/14/2025
Actions by Wyoming and the feds could have opposing effects on Indigenous rock art (Wyoming Public Media) 5/13/2025
Federal judge pauses Oak Flat land swap until a SCOTUS decision (Arizona Public Media) 5/9/2025
Exploratory drilling projects threaten important Black Hills cultural sites, activists say (South Dakota Searchlight) 5/2/2025
Supreme Court declines to hear Sault Tribe's casino land case (Native News Online) 4/29/2025
Arizona federal judge will consider Apache Stronghold’s petition to delay pending Oak Flat land swap (KJZZ Phoenix) 4/29/2025
Feds to move ahead on Oak Flat copper mine swap in Arizona, despite pending Supreme Court case (AZ Central) 4/17/2025
Will Native Tribes secure Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument? (LA Times) 4/15/2025
Maine governor opposes plan to protect tribal lands (ICT) 4/15/2025
Explainer: how the University of Minnesota system endowment, mining industry benefit from seized Indigenous land (Minnesota Public Radio News) 4/14/2025
All Pueblo Council of Governors applauds reintroduction of legislation to protect Chaco Canyon (Native News Online) 4/10/2025
NCAI stands with Tribal Nations on threats to national monuments and sacred tribal lands (Native News Online) 4/10/2025
Tribal Nations send letter defending creation of Chuckwalla Monument (KESQ News Channel 3 Palm Springs CA) 4/10/2025
A Jemez Pueblo victory (New Mexico Magazine) 4/2/2025
Public lands did not come free: what Trump’s actions may cost Tribal Nations (National Parks Conservation Association) 4/2/2025
LAND BACK: Illinois Governor signs law allowing Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation to reclaim its stolen land (Native News Online) 3/25/2025
A $250M investment will help this lithium mine get up and running. That’s bad news for these Tribes. (Grist) 3/13/2025
Federal legislation would compensate U.P. Native American Tribe for seized land (Michigan Public NPR) 3/10/2025
The case for returning U.S. public lands to Indigenous People (Time) 3/6/2025
LANDBACK: Spirit Lake Nation regains land from Fish and Wildlife Service (ICT) 3/1/2025
New bill would transfer ownership of Shawnee Indian Mission to Shawnee Tribe (Johnson County Post Kansas) 2/24/2025
Layoffs at National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service raise concern over sacred lands (Native News Online) 2/18/2025
US: lithium mine permit violates Indigenous Peoples’ rights (Human Rights Watch) 2/6/2025
Arizona Republicans lose bid to block Grand Canyon monument protections (Arizona Mirror) 2/5/2025
Interior Secretary Burgum signs order requiring 15-day review of public lands for development (Native News Online) 2/4/2025
Opinion: return of land to Penobscot Nation will make history (Portland Press Herald) 2/2/2025
#LandBack offers common ground for Native Tribes, Trump Administration | opinion (Newsweek) 1/31/2025
10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands (Grist) 1/28/2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 – Is the Antiquities Act an antique? [podcast] (Native America Calling) 1/22/2025
Tohono O’odham Nation signs co-stewardship with BLM over sacred lands (AZ Mirror) 1/22/2025
Burgum pledges tribal consultation, pushes energy policy at Interior hearing (Native News Online) 1/18/2025
Victory: Parks group celebrates new era of public lands management with Bears Ears Collaborative Tribal Management Plan (National Parks Conservation Association) 1/15/2025
Tribal members protest so-called 'land grab' by the government [audio] (WBUR NPR Boston) 1/15/2025
In Wyoming, tribal protests prevent land transfer — for now (Grist) 1/15/2025
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Shabbona residents react to state park land transfer (Daily Chronicle Dekalb County Illinois) 1/9/2025
Minnesota regulators require studies along possible routes before pipeline construction near sacred site (Minnesota Public Radio) 1/8/2025
Biden designates two national monuments on tribal ancestral lands in California (Native News Online) 1/7/2025
Black Hills gold mining ban protects land, water, Sioux Nation ‘church’ (Buffalo's Fire) 1/1/2025
