The Latest Breaking News on Native America

SAN JOSE — A controversial anthropology professor at San Jose State, who contended she was a victim of a “woke activist mob” for opposing the repatriation of Native American remains and posing in a photo with an ancient skull, has agreed to leave the university next year.

The decision leaves water infrastructure for the Navajo Nation on unsure ground

The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) in the Southwest – an area larger than 10 states. Today it is home to more than 250,000 people – roughly comparable to the population of St. Petersburg, Florida, or Winston-Salem, North…

Justice Gorsuch's conservative colleagues now ignore him in Indian cases.

Tribe says 1800s treaty creates obligation for US to secure water acces

Native American tribe argued federal government had not fulfilled obligations in battle over dwindling water supplies

Indigenous community had sought to assess water needs amid historic drought in the Colorado River Basin.

The Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a dispute involving water from the drought-stricken Colorado River

Three Native American tribes have devoted decades to returning their ancestral land in Washington to the days before they became the most radioactively contaminated site in the nation’s nuclear weapons complex