Nearly 200 years ago, the United States signed a treaty with the Cherokee people, bartering away the tribe’s ancestral homelands ... for access to Cherokee lands, which included vast hunting ...

At Vanderbilt, the statement passed in the student senate reads: “We collectively acknowledge that Vanderbilt University occupies the ancestral hunting and traditional Lands of the Cherokee ...

“These places are Cherokee ancestral lands; they’re here because of thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship,” says Dunlavey, referring to the biologically rich areas that she studies ...

Journalist Rebecca Nagle discussed the fight over tribal land for the Cherokee Nation in the 1830s through an ancestral lens. Journalist Rebecca Nagle discussed the fight over tribal land for the ...

Such moves could stall or even reverse recent progress in the Land Back movement, forcing Indigenous communities to fight new legal and political battles to reclaim their ancestral lands.

UW makes millions from ancestral tribal lands. ... Upwards of $1 million per year in lease payments are funneled through the ...

Leaders of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, another tribe that claims the area as its ancestral land, call the Koi’s connection to the land tenuous and its proposal an “illegal land ...

The pueblo jumped at the chance to buy the ranch in 2016 and embarked on a yearslong process that culminated Wednesday with the U.S. government bringing a major portion of their ancestral lands ...

Native American Tribe Is on a Preservation Mission as It Celebrates Trust Status for Ancestral Lands SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — When the sprawling Alamo Ranch first went up for sale nearly a ...