Editor's note:This story, originally published in 2014, was updated on May 5, 2021 with links tothe latest version of Aaron Carapella's map Finding an address on a map can be taken for granted in the ...

Native American tribes across the West are trying — and in more and more cases succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back.

Last week, the Yurok Tribe signed a historic agreement with the National Park Service, California State Parks and Save the Redwoods League to transfer a 125-acre property back to tribal ownership. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark Rain Thom sits near a stairway in her home that holds a collection of traditional Native American items. Dark Rain said she ...

Route 66 travels 2,448 miles across eight states linking Chicago to Los Angeles. Roughly 1,372 of those miles cut through Native American Tribes’ land. According to the American Indian Alaska Native ...

Maps hold power. For millennia, the borders and place names represented on world maps signify who claims or possesses control of a geographic region. Through colonization, violent conquest or ...

A Native American tribe that was displaced by the establishment of Yosemite National Park is getting part of its lands back. The land transfer, from Pacific Forest Trust, is considered a major ...

(WHTM) – Long before the arrival of the first European settlers, the area that is now Pennsylvania was first home to many Native American tribes beginning as early as 16,000 years ago, according to ...