For years, members of the Walker River Paiute Tribe who depend on well water have been plagued by water scarcity, brought on by a lack of infrastructure and funding. Between aging pipes, pollutants ...
The 1922 Colorado River Compact, a foundational interstate agreement that informs the management of a river that serves 40 million people, did not settle Native American tribes’ water rights. Tribes ...
The Colorado River Indian Tribes of California and Arizona voted to give their namesake waterway the same legal rights as a person.
A tribal nation has declared the Colorado River a legal person. An Indigenous leader says it reflects how her people have ...
REQUA, Calif. — Queen Gensaw skylarked around and between her parents, Oscar and Georgianna, at the Yurok Tribe's boat ramp at Requa, or Rek-woi, the “mouth of the creek” where the Klamath River meets ...
A powerful film about the Chickahominy Tribe’s resilience, heritage, and renewal. Resilience on the River tells the powerful story of the Chickahominy Indian Tribe of Virginia, whose identity has ...
A little-known fact about the Colorado River is that American Indian tribes own rights to about a quarter of the river. In reality, for most tribes, they are only “paper rights” not amounting to water ...
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe filed two motions in a federal district court. — -- A Native American tribe has filed the first legal challenge to block the nearly finished Dakota Access Pipeline ...
The “Tule River Tribe Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025,” introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-California), advanced from the Committee on Indian Affairs and will be ...
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