On the Flathead Indian Reservation in Northwest Montana, picking apples means there’s less food to attract bears.

In the small town of Howard, Colorado, something special happens each summer. Riders of all ages gather at the Four Bar S arena for a grassroots gymkhana series that's more than just a set of horse events. It's a tradition, a community, and a legacy, all wrapped into one.

The move, by the Colorado River Indian Tribes in Arizona and California would give rights of nature to the water, marking a historic first.

On May 27, the Department of Justice released a legal opinion siding with the president's desire to strip certain sites of their national monument status, overriding the Antiquities Act and putting sacred Indigenous lands at risk.

For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely put an end to those practices, though the tradition endured. Now, California tribes have opened the door to a new era of cultural burning - a potential model for the rest of the West.

At the Montrose County Fair, local youth aren't just raising livestock — they're raising themselves. From dawn-to-dusk routines to emotional goodbyes in the show ring, the fair's 4-H and FFA events are teaching kids about responsibility, business, and resilience.

A group of Indigenous youths became some of the first in over a century to kayak the full length of the Klamath River along the California-Oregon border on July 11 after the nation's largest dam-removal project was completed last fall.

For more than 50 years, Ed Singer has used oil paints on canvas to depict life in the Navajo Nation. In a style that is both realistic and abstract, Singer’s paintings portray the Indigenous experience using classical European painting techniques, and modern style.

Across the West, climate change is putting snow sports like skiing at risk. For Indigenous skiers, that adds to a long history of exclusion from the sport.

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.