UPDATED: This story has been updated to note that a last-minute decision by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday ...

The Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum has returned four culturally significant artifacts to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. The items involved ...

Opposition mounts to the layoff of thousands of workers in health, education and other key tribal programs and agencies.

Suscol Intertribal Council has worked to create a place for Napa’s original inhabitants, the Native American population, in ...

New $1.2M 'reflection point' along the Sacramento River Trail in Redding will look out on vistas, speak to local Wintu ...

Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...

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Many are working to ensure their citizens’ safety amid rising reports of Native people being stopped and questioned.

On October 14 of last year — fewer than three weeks after Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Senate Bill 359 ...

The Food Sovereignty Lab creates a welcoming campus environment for Indigenous students and mentors future leaders, improving ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...