In 1998, California voters overwhelmingly approved gambling casinos on Indian reservations. Two years later, they ratified contracts negotiated by former Governor Gray Davis with 61 Indian tribes. Now ...

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi ...

Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in ...

On Friday, known as California Native American Day, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three key pieces of legislation focused on Native American issues and issued a proclamation recognizing the significance of ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago ...

Tule elk are released onto the Tule River Indian Reservation in Tulare County on Oct. 22. (Travis VanZant / California Department of Fish and Wildlife) In the scrub-brush foothills between the long ...

As work proceeds to remove four dams along the Klamath River, more than the salmon runs will be restored: The lands long buried by the now-drained reservoirs will be reclaimed by the people who were ...

In the last year, the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians – Kizh Nation has worked to protect its cultural sites from more than 850 land development projects around the Los Angeles Basin, thanks to a ...

Seven Native American tribes say that about 100 card clubs are operating "banked" casino games involving a "house" that players bet against, in violation of state laws granting exclusivity of these ...

More than 1.4 million Californians identify as American Indian or Alaskan Native, according to the 2020 U.S. Census. But unlike states with smaller Native populations, there’s no nationally accredited ...

The California Nations Indian Gaming Association (CNIGA) is prepared to fight for its tribal sovereignty against controversial sweepstakes gaming companies and daily fantasy sports sites operating in ...