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 ...

Whether stewardship rights, such as those granted through land trusts and the like, constitute Land Back is a great question. The question and its framing are instructive of the very issues the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Yurok Tribe has regained nearly 189 square kilometres of ancestral forestland along the Klamath River in northern California, ...

For more than a century, the Yurok Tribe of Northern California was cut off from one of its most sacred places: Blue Creek, a cold, clear tributary of the Klamath River that winds through towering ...

This week the Yurok Tribe and the Western Rivers Conservancy, in conjunction with the California Wildlife Conservation Board and the California State Coastal Conservancy, announced that they had ...

Today, there’s a growing movement of tribes reclaiming their ancestral lands that some scholars and advocates have called “ Land Back.” Across the Midwest and Great Plains, many tribes have done this ...