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Aaron Carapella couldn't find a map showing the original names and locations of Native American tribes as they existed before contact with Europeans. That's why the Oklahoma man designed his own map.
The Columbia and Okanogan Rivers to the east, south and west of the Colville Indian Reservation form natural borders on a map of north-central Washington. On the ground, the reservation’s forested ...
Colorado’s next wolves won’t come from Washington tribes, leaving state to search again for new source Wildlife officials plan to release 10-15 wolves in second round of reintroduction next winter ...
Washington tribes boosted the state's economy by generating $7.4 billion in 2023, up from $6.6 billion in 2020, according to ...
The immediate issue is how Congress should respond to a 2009 ruling in which the justices narrowed the mandate of the Indian Reorganization Act that has guided federal policy since the New Deal.
The Indian Health Service, the reservation’s main source for health care, will also be cut by 8 percent, and Head Start, which serves 240 toddlers, will be cut by 5 percent, officials said.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Two Native American reservations — one in the Dakotas and another in Washington state — have been selected as test sites ahead of the 2020 census, as officials mull ...
This map shows the Western Washington land, currently held in federal trust, that a new congressional bill could hand back to the Quinault Indian Nation after nearly 100 years.
Construction is beginning on a new D.C. hotel that links four American Indian tribes with city developers. The $43 million Residence Inn Capitol, three blocks from the site of the Smithsonian’s ...
At least 10 states quietly own lands within Indian reservations — and profit from them Tribal climate action plans are being stymied by state-owned land within reservation borders. Maria Parazo Rose & ...
40-year-old Daniel Jiminez-Chavez, aka Raton, of Okanogan, Washington went to the Crow Indian Reservation to distribute methamphetamine in what the Department of Justice (DOJ) said was a large ...
State trust lands, which are managed by state agencies, generate millions of dollars for public schools, universities, penitentiaries, hospitals, and other state institutions.