2025 Native Lands & Sacred Places News Stories (Land Back, Treaty Rights, Tribal Homelands, Historic Protections) News Stories
Feds to move ahead on Oak Flat copper mine swap in Arizona, despite pending Supreme Court case (AZ Central) 4/17/2025
Will Native Tribes secure Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument? (LA Times) 4/15/2025
Maine governor opposes plan to protect tribal lands (ICT) 4/15/2025
Explainer: how the University of Minnesota system endowment, mining industry benefit from seized Indigenous land (Minnesota Public Radio News) 4/14/2025
All Pueblo Council of Governors applauds reintroduction of legislation to protect Chaco Canyon (Native News Online) 4/10/2025
NCAI stands with Tribal Nations on threats to national monuments and sacred tribal lands (Native News Online) 4/10/2025
Tribal Nations send letter defending creation of Chuckwalla Monument (KESQ News Channel 3 Palm Springs CA) 4/10/2025
A Jemez Pueblo victory (New Mexico Magazine) 4/2/2025
Public lands did not come free: what Trump’s actions may cost Tribal Nations (National Parks Conservation Association) 4/2/2025
LAND BACK: Illinois Governor signs law allowing Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation to reclaim its stolen land (Native News Online) 3/25/2025
A $250M investment will help this lithium mine get up and running. That’s bad news for these Tribes. (Grist) 3/13/2025
Federal legislation would compensate U.P. Native American Tribe for seized land (Michigan Public NPR) 3/10/2025
The case for returning U.S. public lands to Indigenous People (Time) 3/6/2025
LANDBACK: Spirit Lake Nation regains land from Fish and Wildlife Service (ICT) 3/1/2025
New bill would transfer ownership of Shawnee Indian Mission to Shawnee Tribe (Johnson County Post Kansas) 2/24/2025
Layoffs at National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service raise concern over sacred lands (Native News Online) 2/18/2025
US: lithium mine permit violates Indigenous Peoples’ rights (Human Rights Watch) 2/6/2025
Arizona Republicans lose bid to block Grand Canyon monument protections (Arizona Mirror) 2/5/2025
Interior Secretary Burgum signs order requiring 15-day review of public lands for development (Native News Online) 2/4/2025
Opinion: return of land to Penobscot Nation will make history (Portland Press Herald) 2/2/2025
#LandBack offers common ground for Native Tribes, Trump Administration | opinion (Newsweek) 1/31/2025
10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands (Grist) 1/28/2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 – Is the Antiquities Act an antique? [podcast] (Native America Calling) 1/22/2025
Tohono O’odham Nation signs co-stewardship with BLM over sacred lands (AZ Mirror) 1/22/2025
Burgum pledges tribal consultation, pushes energy policy at Interior hearing (Native News Online) 1/18/2025
Victory: Parks group celebrates new era of public lands management with Bears Ears Collaborative Tribal Management Plan (National Parks Conservation Association) 1/15/2025
Tribal members protest so-called 'land grab' by the government [audio] (WBUR NPR Boston) 1/15/2025
In Wyoming, tribal protests prevent land transfer — for now (Grist) 1/15/2025
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Shabbona residents react to state park land transfer (Daily Chronicle Dekalb County Illinois) 1/9/2025
Minnesota regulators require studies along possible routes before pipeline construction near sacred site (Minnesota Public Radio) 1/8/2025
Biden designates two national monuments on tribal ancestral lands in California (Native News Online) 1/7/2025
Black Hills gold mining ban protects land, water, Sioux Nation ‘church’ (Buffalo's Fire) 1/1/2025
