The Trump administration's focus on domestic energy production has pushed the Bureau of Land Management to reconsider a rule against oil drilling in a 10-mile area surrounding the Chaco Culture ...

The Picuris Pueblo, a sovereign nation in New Mexico, has oral histories and cultural traditions that link the tribe to the ...

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

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 ...

“Room 33 – Chaco Canyon’s Room With A View Into the Past ... discovered via a DNA test his lineage traces back to the people of the Chacoan civilization, remnants of which lie in Chaco ...

For the first time, a federally recognized Indigenous tribe has led a genetic study confirming their ancestral connection to Chaco Canyon. The Picuris Pueblo, a sovereign nation in New Mexico, has ...

A groundbreaking study led by Texas's Southern Methodist University (SMU) has confirmed what the people of Picuris ... from the builders of the famous Chaco Canyon—an ancestral Puebloan society ...

Clean up your own mess. That’s the message the New Mexico Court of Appeals sent in a recent ruling in a 2021 case involving ...

DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon a millennium ago is helping to link present-day members of a Pueblo tribe to this historic site ...

beginning around AD 1 and reaching its peak between 1100 A.D. and 1200 A.D. Mesa Verde became a cultural hub following a mass migration from sites like Chaco Canyon around 1100 A.D. Before this time, ...