When New York State claimed a ‘permanent easement’ across the Nation’s Westwoods land, it could not do so, under federal law, ...

The myth of 19th century America was the claim that Western lands were “empty” or occupied by uncivilized, savage peoples. In reality, Chinook and other Native Americans lived for thousands of years ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...