“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 ...

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.

Hill lives on her family’s ancestral lands in the Big Cove Community in Cherokee, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Cherokee High School and Western Carolina University, where she earned a B.S.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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