Tag: tribal sovereignty

  • Blackfeet Ancestral Ties to the Great Plains Span 18000 Years

    Blackfeet Ancestral Ties to the Great Plains Span 18000 Years

    For generations, the Blackfeet people have told the world that they have always been here. Long before borders were drawn, before treaties were signed, and before historians attempted to map Indigenous history through a European lens, Blackfeet oral tradition carried a clear and unwavering truth: their ancestors emerged from and belonged to the Northern Great…

  • California’s Yurok Tribe Wins Ancestral Lands Back That Were Taken Over 120 Years Ago

    California’s Yurok Tribe Wins Ancestral Lands Back That Were Taken Over 120 Years Ago

    What if your family had been locked out of your ancestral home for over a century—only to be handed the keys back after generations of waiting, fighting, and hoping? Along California’s mist-shrouded Klamath River, that’s exactly what happened for the Yurok Tribe. Once stewards of nearly half a million acres of land, the Yurok lost…