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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …