Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” ...

In the 1700s, 80 million bison roamed much of North America. They were everything to the people who lived among them: shelter, food, clothing, and ...

Like many residents of Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, Jacques Powers wears clothes and boots painted with dirt and mud and gets around in a humming monster truck. But no matter where ...

For Angela Mooney D'Arcy and other Indigenous Californians, a spirit of racial trauma hangs over some of the richest and most storied stretches of the Golden State. California — like all of the ...

Canada’s federal government recently signed three agreements with the Musqueam First Nation that, among other things, recognize the Musqueam People’s Aboriginal title to their traditional territory — ...

For decades, global conservation efforts relied heavily on one dominant philosophy: protect nature by removing people from it. Forests became “preserves,” rivers became “resources,” and entire ...

Shortly after British settlers established the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1849, governor James Douglas signed a flurry of ...

Amnesty International (AI) welcomed on Tuesday Itaipu Binacional’s decision to finance the restitution of indigenous land in Brazil to the Avá Guaraní Paranaense people (“the Avá Guaraní”). These ...

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...