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Ancestral lands in El Dorado County returned to Miwok descendants

Kimberly Petree, executive director of Cosumnes Culture and WaterWays and a descendent of a Miwok tribe that lived in the ...
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Sullivan & Colleagues Seek to Reauthorize Young Fishermen’s Development Program

Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) have introduced bipartisan legislation reauthorizing the Young Fishermen’s Development Act, first signed into law by President Trump in 2021, to ...
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A year into return of Upper Sioux land, tribe and local governments look to region’s future

The tribe plans to introduce bison on the former state park land while counties have state funds at their disposal for ...
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Q&A: Jackie Catalina Schaefer Argues 'Indigenous Infrastructure' Deserves Federal Funding too

Federal agencies spend billions on roads and energy systems in Alaska, but nothing on fish camps and traditional trails that ...
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Support for American Indian and Alaska Native students can’t stop at land acknowledgments

In ceremony booklets, course syllabi, and even email signatures, the UW land acknowledgment can be read as follows: “The ...

Trump admin implodes literal Biden roadblock with potential to unleash major mining windfall

Alaska Natives praise Trump administration's 28,000-acre land transfer that could enable resource development previously ...

Research links 19th-century land program to sharp rise in Native American mortality

When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them ...