Growing up on the Washoe tribal land spread across Nevada and California known as Hung-A-Lel-Ti territory, Kenneth Cruz started splitting wood when he was around 12. The youngest of eight — seven boys ...

It’s easy to imagine American frontier folk felling trees to build log cabins. But what about homes made from sod, clay—or even ice? Long before colonization, Indigenous communities built and designed ...

When Sheri Snetsinger moved back to the White Earth Reservation in 2013, she was returning home, but she had no housing for herself and her children. Her family had a hard time finding a place on the ...