A thousand years ago, the people living in Chaco Canyon were building massive structures of intricate masonry and trading with locations as far away as Mexico. Within a century, however ...

The withdrawal from oil and gas development was put in place by then-Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in 2023.

Traditional knowledge, however, was clear that Picuris people had a deep connection to Chaco Canyon. Tribal leaders said that line of evidence was often ignored. In 2019, Picuris tribal leaders ...

A New Mexico pueblo is going against the norm and using genetic testing, looking to answer questions about their history. The ...

Scientists are puzzled by how the ancient people, ancestors of modern-day ... led to a 2022 study recalculating the masses of the Chaco Canyon timbers as between 85 and 140 kilograms.

When drought hit in 1130, it was obvious the people of Chaco Canyon had been living too close to the edge. Corn made up the bulk of their diet, as well the diet of their main source of meat ...

At its heart lies Chaco Canyon. 1000 years ago, a people, undaunted by the canyon's barren landscape, constructed monumental buildings for rituals attending to the sun and to the moon. A ...

NAVAJO NATION PRESIDENT NYGREN SAYS THIS IMPACTS THOUSANDS OF NAVAJO PEOPLE AND COULD AFFECT DEVELOPMENT ... TO BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH The Chaco Canyon land withdrawal attracted supporters ...

New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon was home to Puebloan people who built monumental high-rises from sandstone and timber, established long-distance trade routes that brought in cacao and turquoise and ...

There are no preserved timber scrape marks near the site, and the people of Chaco Canyon didn't have draft animals or even wheels, according to Kram and his co-authors. So the logs must have been ...

Chaco is a sacred ancestral land for her people – the Laguna Pueblo. Haaland is the first Indigenous member of a presidential cabinet in U.S. history. The buffer did not stop all oil and gas ...

When Haaland visited Chaco Canyon in 2019, allottees were also in ... Navajo police in her posted statement for their work to keep people safe at the protest, Yazzie said being in the middle ...