Native and Indigenous News

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

A confrontation between religious freedom and public safety has reached the Supreme Court of Texas. The battle is over access to a site where Native Americans have been holding spiritual ceremonies for centuries.

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.

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.

Farrell Hayes represents something that veteran firefighters say is harder to come by these days: a young person who wants to get involved in firefighting.

In this KSUT Conversation, we talk to Colten Ashley, KSUT Tribal Media Center Director, about the upcoming Native Lens Symposium, a celebration of Native American filmmaking.

The rural healthcare shortage has hit some tribal nations especially hard. One tribe in Nevada has found a solution: a doctor’s office on wheels.

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.