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.

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.

Washington tribes boosted the state's economy by generating $7.4 billion in 2023, up from $6.6 billion in 2020, according to ...

Washington AGO and TAC release a preliminary report on Indian boarding schools, outlining historical impacts and paths for ...

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 ...

State trust lands, which are managed by state agencies, generate millions of dollars for public schools, universities, penitentiaries, hospitals, and other state institutions.

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 & ...