Native Americans

Nye County will be the first and only county in the country to provide Shoshone language assistance — a traditionally non-written language that will require qualified interpreters at the polls going forward.

After years of court battles tribes in Nevada are on a path to receive reparations from some of the largest United States drug distributors and a top drugmaker they say fueled an opioid epidemic in their communities.

Almost half of Native American and Alaska Native survey respondents have experienced food insecurity during the pandemic, according to a new report released by Native-led food research organizations. 

The Fort Mojave Indian Tribe is one step closer to permanently protecting a sacred swath of land in Nevada after gaining congressional support to designate the landscape as a National Monument. 

The proposed Pine Valley Water Supply Project would pipe water to Cedar City in Iron County, Utah from aquifers east of Nevada’s border.

Nevada’s Tribal fish hatcheries are facing new challenges: invasive species like the destructive quagga and zebra mussels.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation Business Council this month met with state officials from Nevada to being the process of formalizing the Tribes’ water rights.

Ahead of a conference of the Colorado River Water Users Association in Las Vegas, a group of conservationists and tribal leaders held a press conference on the overuse of water within the Colorado River Basin Monday.

More than $5 million in Indian Community Block Grant-American Rescue Plan (ICDBG-ARP) grants were awarded to five Tribal communities in Nevada to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Stewart School in Carson City is among more than 350 residential schools that the U.S. Interior Department plans to examine as part of the Federal Boarding School Initiative Review.