The Supreme Court’s attack on tribal sovereignty, explained
Jul 1, 2022 · As part of its recent precedent-breaking spree, the U.S. Supreme Court turned federal Indian law on its head this week on Wednesday, June 29. In the case of Oklahoma v.Castro-Huerta, a majority of ...
Washington’s largest homeless encampment faces an uncertain …
Jul 19, 2022 · In early July, an unrelenting sun beat down on the tents, RVs and cars of Camp Hope. Covering a full city block just off of Interstate 90 a couple miles east of downtown Spokane, Camp Hope is home ...
Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s …
Jan 14, 2021 · In Las Cruces, the Rio Grande’s flow is diverted and drained, flooding into pecan orchards and feeding crops like onions, corn and famously peppery green chiles, for which the state is known ...
Paws on the ground: How Colorado got its wolves back
Dec 19, 2023 · Wolf 2303-OR is one of five gray wolves released by Colorado Parks and Wildlife onto public land in Grand County, Colorado on Monday, December 18, 2023. Jerry Neal/Colorado Parks and Wildlife ...
The ways Afro-Indigenous people are asked to navigate their …
Oct 28, 2021 · Alaina E. Roberts: Congratulations on your book! I was very glad to read it. In our field of Black-Native history, there are people like you and I, who write from our positions as members of the ...
‘Smoke Signals’ was needed, but it doesn’t hold up
Oct 1, 2019 · Jason Asenap is a Comanche and Muscogee Creek writer and director (and an occasional actor) based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Email High Country News at [email protected] or submit a letter to the ...
How, 150 years ago, the Homestead Act transformed the West
Dec 9, 2012 · This year marks the 150th anniversary of the fruit of Jefferson’s conviction — the 1862 Homestead Act. The federal law changed the West forever by providing a new start for urban emigrants ...
Lower Snake River dams closer to coming down with new agreement
Dec 15, 2023 · Kiliii Yuyan. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced its support for preparing to breach the four Lower Snake River Dams in the Columbia River Basin through an agreement with four tribal ...
Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern
Aug 8, 2005 · The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism by Robert W. Righter 277 pages, hardover $30: Oxford University press, 2005
The West’s hidden corners offer a safe space for polygamists
Aug 8, 2019 · The West’s hidden corners offer a safe space for polygamists. Each year, Mormon fundamentalists gather on a remote slice of southeastern Utah. Heidi Foster takes a brief break during the rafting ...