A group at the foot of Avi Kwa Ame, or Spirit Mountain, just south of Searchlight, Nev. A proposal would designate the mountain and over 443,000 surrounding acres as Avi Kwa Ame National Monument.

The story of the American Indians has, until now, been told as a 500-year tragedy, a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases, followed by steady retreat, defeat, and ...

For the first time in U.S. history, a tribe is managing land with the National Park Service. In March, the Yurok Tribe of California signed a historic memorandum of understanding with the National ...

When European colonists travelled to America, some assumed that the indigenous American peoples were irreligious heathens, as they didn’t seem to have special sacred places for religious worship, like ...