Anna V. Smith

Tribal nations' efforts to force the U.S. to honor treaty rights could bolster environmental protections.

Gorsuch was confirmed in April along party lines, and no Western Democrat voted in his favor. But Gorsuch has a strong background in Indian law and a record of recognizing tribal sovereignty and self...

Tessa Plainfeather and Emily Moccasin embrace in front of their grandmother’s home on the Crow Reservation in Montana. The reservation is one of the 20 tribes with a lot of land that will still be...

The interior of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco

Mule deer bucks on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.