This system is out of balance largely owing to the absence of a keystone species: xvlh-t’vsh, which means “sea otter” in the Athabaskan language of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

Affected tribes lost millions of acres of land as ... whose name means “six butterflies” in the regional Athabaskan language from southwestern Oregon and northwestern California.

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Coachella Valley Water District and Desert Water Agency have agreed to settle two long running water rights lawsuits, which the three parties said in a ...

Louisiana recognizes four Native American tribes: the Chitimacha Tribe, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana. Each tribe ...

That’s what they do to people.” The Tanana Chiefs Conference, a consortium of Athabascan tribes in Interior Alaska, spent years advocating for the peak to be recognized as Denali. McKinley ...

It is April in Hualien, a county on the east coast of Taiwan, and visitors on a Truku tribe experience tour, led by guide Dai Xinzhe, are sweating from the oppressive heat and humidity.

Port Heiden is facing an energy crisis. A $300,000 grant from the EPA would have helped the traditional Alutiiq community swap costly, polluting diesel for cheaper, clean power.

To the several tribes who revere American bison — they call them “buffalo” — the calf's appearance was both the fulfillment of sacred prophecy and a message to take better care of the Earth.

Since time immemorial, his ancestors from the Yurok Tribe had fished, hunted and gathered in this watershed flanked by coastal forests. But for more than 100 years, these lands were owned and ...

The San Carlos Apache Tribe wants a federal court to delay a land swap that would allow construction of a copper mine at Oak Flat. A federal judge ordered a halt to the deal last week after ...

KAMILCHE POINT, Mason County – The Squaxin Island Tribe’s health clinic is named after Sally Brownfield’s late mother, who spent decades working to obtain quality care for members of her ...