CAMP VERDE, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. forest managers have finalized a land exchange with the Yavapai-Apache Nation that has been decades in the making and will significantly expand the size of the tribe’s reservation in Arizona’s Verde Valley, tribal ...

Warming seas and increased flooding threaten a way of life for Native Americans who have called the Pacific Northwest coast their home for generations.

Despite the political tug-of-war over two majestic buttes, this corner of Utah is hallowed ground to the tribes and pueblos that continue to gather there.

Prior to the arrival of the first European settlers early in the 17th Century, an estimated 50 million Native Americans tilled the land in the area that became the United States, gathered food in the forests, hunted bison and other wild ruminant animals ...

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi Native American woman and her daughter walked onto a 5-acre parcel of land, shaded by oaks and pines,

In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. As for Louisiana, the state is home to more federally recognized Indigenous tribes than any other state in ...