ELKO, Nev. — Hostilities have long persisted between Nevada’s mining companies and the state’s Native American population. That was particularly true in the Elko area in the early years of this ...

Two more Western Slope communities have committed funding toward the Colorado River District’s $99 million acquisition of the ...

Two elderly Indian sisters haul hay, mend fences and round up cattle at their ranch in this remote Nevada valley. Between chores, they spearhead one of the most controversial land battles in the West.

The towns of Breckenridge and Gypsum respectively have committed $100,000 and $15,000, respectively, in funding to the Western Slope effort to acquire the historic Shoshone hydroelectric power plant w ...

LAS VEGAS — Some Western Shoshone tribe members pledged Wednesday to refuse federal payment for their ancestral land after President Bush gave final approval to paying more than $145 million to settle ...

RENO, Nev. (CN) - Western Shoshone who formed a livestock partnership cannot force the tribe to give them access to the tribe's grazing lands and water in Nevada, a federal judge ruled. The South Fork ...

To say I am proud of being from Nevada is an understatement. Growing up in Northern Nevada, I have many memories of spending weeks camping at Wildhorse during summer vacations and competing in sports ...

ELKO, Nev. – A panicked starling flaps under the rafters and the Beastie Boys shout from the overhead loudspeakers, but the tribal gymnasium seems as still and serious as a classroom before a final ...

For decades, Corbin Harney was a fixture at anti-nuclear rallies advocating for peace and protection of "Mother Earth," especially his native land, Newe Sogobia, which stretched across a wide swath of ...

The Western Shoshone seek to invalidate a 1977 Indian Claims Commission (ICC) judgment awarding compensation for the taking of the Western Shoshone’s aboriginal lands in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and ...

In Nevada, Indigenous leader, land rights activist and water protector Carrie Dann has died at the age of 88. Beginning in the 1970s, Carrie Dann and her sister Mary refused to pay grazing fees to the ...

CRESCENT VALLEY -- They sit side-by-side under a poplar tree they once climbed as girls, talking about what they have talked about endlessly for decades. On this day, two dozen wide-eyed college ...