2024 Native Lands & Sacred Places News Stories (Land Back, Treaty Rights, Tribal Homelands, Historic Protections) News Stories
UPDATE: Tohono O’odham Nation responds after judge rejects injunction for SunZia transmission project (KOLD Arizona) 4/17/2024
U.S. court rejects a request by tribes to block $10 billion energy transmission project in Arizona (PBS) 4/17/2024
Apache Stronghold appeals Oak Flat copper mine case to full 9th Circuit Appeals Court (AZ Central) 4/15/2024
Draft plan released for Bears Ears National Monument (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 4/15/2024
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe celebrates legal victory over land in trust (Cape and Islands NPR) 4/3/2024
New online collection seeks to foster Native co-stewardship of public lands (Boise State Public Radio) 3/28/2024
Winnebago Tribe closer than ever to reclaiming land seized by government (Sioux City Journal) 3/28/2024
Who will stop the ‘ticking time bomb’ across Native lands? (Prism) 3/26/2024
California Tribe becomes the first to manage land with National Park Service (The Guardian) 3/20/2024
The massive copper mine that could test the limits of religious freedom (Grist) 3/19/2024
Dark history, hopes for future mix as Minnesota transfers state park to Dakota Tribe (Minnesota Star Tribune) 3/15/2024
Tribes and the feds will try to co-manage a national monument for the first time. Here’s what that could look like. (The Salt Lake Tribune) 3/8/2024
Why Alaska Natives like me oppose the landless bill (Juneau Empire) 3/7/2024
US circuit court rules against preservation of Oak Flats sacred site (Native News Online) 3/3/2024
How states make money off Tribal lands (High Country News) 2/28/2024
Members, allies of Mohawk Nation protest land settlement talks in downtown Syracuse (Daily Orange) 2/26/2024
Native American Tribes gain new authority to stop unwanted hydropower projects (U.S. News & World Report) 2/23/2024
University of Minnesota to return 3,400 acres to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe (Native News Online) 2/21/2024
Federal energy regulators deny permits for a controversial project on the Navajo Nation (Wyoming Public Radio) 2/20/2024
‘Simply green colonialism’ | Feds move forward with Oregon off shore wind project, despite Tribal objections (Native News Online) 2/14/2024
Arizona republicans sue Biden over his Grand Canyon monument (Arizona Mirror) 2/12/2024
The extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land (Grist) 2/7/2024
Native leaders urge Congress to bolster funding for land consolidation in Indian Country (Tribal Business News) 2/4/2024
Great Basin Tribes want Bahsahwahbee massacre site in Nevada named national monument (Star Tribune) 1/24/2024
Upper Sioux community to reacquire current state park land where ancestors are buried (Native News Online) 1/24/2024
Tribes sue to stop work on SunZia power line through San Pedro Valley (Arizona Daily Star) 1/22/2024
Biden protected the lands surrounding the Grand Canyon. Uranium mining is happening there anyway. (Grist) 1/18/2024
Native landowners file to intervene in feud between BIA, Tesoro Pipeline (Native News Online) 1/17/2024
Feds seek public input on potentially opening millions of acres of Alaska wilderness lands (Alaska Public Media) 1/5/2024
Lincoln, Native American protesters resolve lawsuit over Wilderness Crossing development (Nebraska Examiner) 1/4/2024
Lincolnites and city reach settlement in Niskithe prayer camp land dispute (ACLU Nebraska) 1/4/2024
