For Indigenous people, Native American Heritage Month carries a different weight this year. While these gains are monumental, they are not immune to political shifts. As Native Americans honor ...

In the United States, there are more than 500 separate tribal nations and 325 American Indian reservations. Many of those reservations are often small remnants of the tribe's ancestral land. In recent ...

Philanthropically-inclined clients' interest in the Land Back Movement is opening new realms of estate planning for financial advisors and tax professionals. Individual estates' bequests of land pose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Heck, Derrick Prentice, Principal Chief Lora Chaisson, and Michael Billiot (Photo/United Houma Nation) The United Houma ...

The 45th Colorado Law Conference on Natural Resources was held at the University of Colorado Boulder Wolf Law Building. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News) BOULDER, Colo. (CN) — In 1980, the U.S. Supreme ...

Jim Thorpe, revered as one of the greatest athletes in American history, exemplifies how personal wishes and legal rights can conflict posthumously. Thorpe’s estranged third wife, Patricia, moved his ...

Back in the 1700s, the Massachusetts government offered money or land — or both — to the men who brought them the scalps of Native men, women, and even children. Now, tribes and organizations are ...

The federal scheme accelerated the Land Back movement’s goal of returning lands to Indigenous control, strengthening tribal sovereignty, and enabling tribes to exercise self-determination over their ...

For Indigenous people, Native American Heritage Month carries a different weight this year. Since 1990, November has been a time for America’s first people to share their culture, traditions, music, ...