As the Muwekma Ohlone tribe pushes for federal recognition with a cross-country horseback trek, its grassroots campaign appears to have gained the sympathy of the San Jose City Council, with …
In 2020, Assemblymember James C. Ramos, D-San Bernardino, celebrated the creation of the state’s new Office of Suicide Prevention. Four years later, more work remains to be done, he and …
By ALEXA ST. JOHN | Associated Press President Joe Biden on Thursday expanded two national monuments in California following calls from tribal nations, Indigenous community leaders and others for the …
Arielle Zionts | KFF Health News (TNS) HISLE, S.D. — Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young. …
By JULIE WATSON | Associated Press California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice …
BerkeleyBERKELEY — A 2.2-acre piece of land in West Berkeley known as the Ohlone Shellmound village site will be handed over to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust following years of …
By Hillel Italie | Associated Press NEW YORK — N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel “House Made of Dawn” is widely credited …
Madyson Fitzgerald | (TNS) Stateline.org On the Hopi Reservation’s more than 1.5 million acres of desert landscape in northeast Arizona, most residents live in villages atop arid mesas. Below ground, …
“So happy to be back with some old friends,” read the caption of Weiss’ tweet, which included a photo of her holding the skull of a Native ancestor in front …
Jim Robbins | (TNS) KFF Health News BOZEMAN, Mont. — Behind American Indian Hall on the Montana State University campus, ancient life is growing. Six-foot-tall corn plants tower over large …