By the time sailing ship Capt. Robert Gray named and claimed the Columbia River for the United States in 1792, European diseases already had decimated the Pacific Northwest Native American population.

Indigenous activists behind protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline say a lawsuit against Greenpeace is trying to rewrite ...

A coalition of environmental groups sued the Trump administration this week to try to thwart the approval of the Stibnite ...

The City of Moscow accepted a $182,500 grant to study what it would take to divert water from the Clearwater River to the Palouse. This is a water alternative being considered by Moscow and other ...

A disputed tunnel in Michigan for an Enbridge Inc. oil pipeline is among hundreds of energy and mining projects the US Army ...

Utah asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the federal government can indefinitely hold “unappropriated” land within a state. Utah challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s oversight of ...

The Nez Perce Tribe has been one of the most vocal against the gold mine. A letter from the Tribal Executive Committee explained how the mine is on tribal lands dating back to an 1855 treaty with the ...

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Top 10 Stories of 2021: No. 2 The bill included $20 billion in Fiscal Recovery Funds for the 574 federally recognized tribes and paid ... President Jonathan Nez said the funds would support ...

Nonetheless, Google announced that it will make the name change to ‘Gulf of America’ for users of Google Maps in the United States once it is officially updated in the US Geographic Names System.

The top executives of Idaho’s publicly traded companies were paid hundreds of times more than their median employees.

Initially, the tribe sought to reclaim the entire 88,900-acre preserve ... and other uses that have coexisted with this place long before it was ever called the United States," said Interior Secretary ...