President Joe Biden is planning a trip to Las Vegas on March 14, where he is expected to designate Avi Kwa Ame as a national monument.

“The responsible expansion of the Navy’s Fallon Range Training Complex has been a major priority of the Navy for years,” Cortez Masto said. “I knew how vital this compromise was to both our national security and to the local economies and Tribal nations.”

After centuries of colonialism decimated their way of life, Indigenous people are reclaiming their identity, culture and presence through safe communal spaces.

Tribe members and other area residents are among millions of people nationwide who this year will experience poor air quality because of wildfires.

In the wake of their battle for equal access to the polls, the Walker River Paiute Tribe has been disappointed by low turnout during early voting — a trend seen across the state so far during the primary.

This week’s Indy Environment looks at the U.S. Department of Interior’s boarding school legacy through the lens of a recent art exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art.

Nevada tribal leaders traveled more than 2,000 miles to Washington D.C. in a bid to protect what they view as a sacred valley.

Autumn Harry has a lot to offer as a fly fishing guide on her ancestral homelands, she said. In an industry dominated by white men, she stands apart.

The residents are locked in a legal battle with the colony council. Colony leaders say the moves are necessary to clean up the neighborhood. Residents call it a thinly-veiled effort to remove them from their homes.

Reps. Susie Lee and Dina Titus are joining conservationists and Indigenous leaders in urging the Biden administration to designate more than 380,000 acres spanning three states a national monument. 

"It is on behalf of the state that I want to make an apology. This policy was abhorrent and we need to make amends now," Gov. Steve Sisolak said following a meeting with tribal leaders.

As Mineral County commissioners approved a resolution to proclaim Monday, the federal Columbus Day holiday, as Indigenous Peoples' Day, Lyon County didn't get that far.

Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows leaders formally reintroduced the site of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games this morning as Palisades Tahoe in time for the upcoming ski season. 

The shop’s wide variety of vegetarian and plant-based food and drink options are a novelty in the remote Nevada desert, said Andrea Martinez, an enrolled member of the Walker River Paiute Tribe.

UNR President Brian Sandoval met with Nevada Native leaders last week to discuss repatriation efforts.

Tribal leaders and the town of Minden announced on Wednesday an agreement to change the time of the daily ‘sundown siren’ once used as a warning for people of color to leave town by nightfall and that has drawn renewed attention amid measures passed by the 2021 Legislature.

The legislation prioritized by Native leaders that cleared the lawmaking session include measures that waive fees at Nevada colleges and universities for Native students; prohibit racially discriminatory language or imagery in schools; and provide environmental protection for sacred sites, among others.

The gathering followed the annual pine nut blessing ceremony, meant to help yield plentiful pine nuts, a traditional food source shared among tribes throughout Nevada, come the fall season. The ceremony and subsequent gathering posed an opportunity for the communities to check in with one another and continue practicing traditions vital to the preservation of their cultures.

But Hansen pushed back on the historical accuracy of the massacres described in Spilsbury’s testimony and by Steele in a letter of support for the bill. During the hearing, Hansen argued that there were anomalies between the testimony and the historical record, including indications that U.S. Cavalry divisions were involved in the 1897 massacre while saying there was no cavalry in the region at that time.

Now, tribal leaders and advocates are focusing their energies on priority issues at the Legislature, such as securing tuition-free higher education for Native students and protections for culturally sacred and environmentally sensitive areas.