Western states were using funds from the Infrastructure Act to clean up pollution left behind by industry. Now, the Trump ...

Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou ...

How the discovery of a long-lost monument shattered trust between a Japanese American community and the museum built to preserve its history.

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They soon learned that the institution was notorious for refusing to return Indigenous items, in open violation of NAGPRA. “The problem with NAGPRA was that it had no teeth,” said Gonzalez. The ...

The cougar was euthanized, and his tissue samples, which were tested for a number of diseases, revealed the presence of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu. Less than two weeks later, ...

With climate change threatening Indigenous lifeways in Alaska, these four young women are devoting their careers to their preservation.

In August 2023, the judge ruled against the state, which appealed to the Montana Supreme Court. When the court affirmed the ruling in December, Held became the first case in the country in which youth ...

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And yet, in just its first 60 days, the second Trump administration has managed to outdo them all, launching an unmitigated assault on democracy, the rule of law, public lands, the federal government ...