Native Americans

Northern Nevada Tribal communities this week filed an amended federal lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management in an ongoing dispute over the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine.

Latino and Native American groups say they’re opposed to the state’s new political boundary maps, and are now working to raise awareness in the community to strengthen people’s commitment to voting.

This week marks the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving meal, and many Native American tribes are asking other Americans to face some hard truths.

A federal judge in Nevada has rejected a legal effort to stop excavation at the site of a planned lithium mine near the Oregon-Nevada border.

The State of Nevada and one Nevada tribe have filed briefs with the Supreme Court to protect the federal law known as the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Today, a virtual summit hosted by the Las Vegas Mayor’s Faith Initiative looks at the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States.

Historians have been working for the past quarter century to broaden understanding of the impact of boarding schools on Indigenous communities.

The Bureau of Land Management has cleared the way for an archaeological survey at the proposed Thacker Pass lithium mining site.

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Myron Dewey, a filmmaker and journalist who helped draw worldwide attention to the concerns of Native Americans fighting an oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, has died.

The Bureau of Land Management has fined two people involved in the Protect Thacker Pass protest camp nearly $50,000 for alleged violations of public land regulations.