The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression.

The entire Black Hills area is considered sacred ground for the Lakota and other tribes. They were promised to the Oceti Sakowin peoples in a 1868 treaty, but once gold was discovered there, the U ...

Christopher Columbus Trump’s plan for a national statue garden could get built on sacred Native land currently held by a wealthy South Dakota mining family. Matt Sledge June 6 2025, 1:08 p.m.

Supreme Court refuses to hear bid by Native American group to stop copper mining on site con­sidered sacred BY Christina Santucci Arizona PUBLISHED 3:38 PM ET May 27, 2025 ...

Apache Stronghold, a Native American nonprofit organization, sued to stop the U.S. Forest Service from transferring the land, citing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 that prevents the ...

For example, the Native Americans of the Iroquois nation lived in longhouses, those in Mesa Verde lived in cliffs, and the Taos tribes lived in pueblos. The U.S. Constitution Was Modeled After This ...

The military eventually agreed to drain the tanks, amid state orders and protests from Native Hawaiians and other Hawaii residents worried about the threat posed to Honolulu’s water supply. The tanks ...

Assemblymember James C. Ramos , chairperson of the California Native American Legislative Caucus, on Wednesday issued the following statement upon the release of a third state auditor’s report dealing ...

Native American news roundup, March 2-8, 2025 The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building is seen in Washington, on March 22, 2013. IRS staff cuts leave tribes struggling for answers ...