It’s easy to imagine American frontier folk felling trees to build log cabins. But what about homes made from sod, clay—or even ice? Long before colonization, Indigenous communities built and designed ...

An Indigenous-led nonprofit group is bringing solar power to Navajo Nation and the Hopi tribe, where about 15,000 households lack access to electricity. Nicholas Ashley, left, and Parvannah Lee, ...

Betty Ann Hurdle spent 54 years on the Hawaiian homelands waitlist before finally receiving an award in March for property in Kapolei. Hours after signing an agreement, the 80-year-old went for a ride ...

Struggles with mail access, internet and language barriers could be amplified. As many election officials across the country move to bolster vote by mail efforts in their states amid the ongoing ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

Window Rock, Ariz. — Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government's top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the ...

Water is life, especially in the desert. The Indigenous people of the area today known as Southern Nevada know this. The Las Vegas Wash, for example, was once an important trading ground for the ...