The General Allotment Act of 1887 divided American Indian treaty lands into individually owned parcels of land known as allotments. Also known as The Dawes Act, Native Americans who were registered ...

Some Native American reservations span more territory than entire U.S. states. This is a fact that surprises many. These are not just symbolic homelands but substantial pieces of land with their own ...

Federal officials have joined with the state of Arizona to begin fulfilling a settlement agreement that was reached with the Hopi Tribe nearly three decades ago, marking what tribal officials ...

The United States government promised the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation about 1,280 acres of Illinois reservation in an 1829 treaty. Instead, the U.S sold all of it illegally to white settlers. The ...

Visiting a Native American reservation isn’t like going to a state park or national forest. These are sovereign nations with their own governments, police forces, and rules that every visitor has to ...

Montana’s American Prairie will have to remove its bison from seven parcels of BLM land it leased for grazing under the Biden administration. It says it will appeal the “politically motivated” ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. More than 17,000 acres of ancestral lands were returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe, part of a state effort to ...

Last month, the state of California took an extraordinary stride toward righting the historical wrongs committed against California Native American tribes. In a historic land transfer, the state of ...