As federal environmental priorities shift, sovereign Native American nations have their own plans
As sovereign nations, Native Americans have been able to protect land, water and air, including well beyond their own boundaries. Now the Trump administration is seeking to eliminate programs aimed at ...
At Nebraska’s Native American boarding school, location of child graves and closure prove elusive
It’s a mystery Fiscus pondered as she sat in a folding chair beneath the sweltering sun in July 2023 and watched as a small ...
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North America is 'dripping' blobs of rock down into Earth's mantle under the U.S.
Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...
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Meet the Fluffy, Funky and Fabulous Native Bees That Call the U.S. Home
Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more ...
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Mining the Past, Threatening the Future
Tribes seeking federal recognition so they can better address climate change face a catch-22 as climate change jeopardizes ...
Native Americans helped spark the Revolution
As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.