SACATON, Arizona (AP) — Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe's water. His father, the late Rodney Lewis, was general counsel for the ...

More than a century has passed since members of the Shasta Indian Nation saw the last piece of their ancestral home — a landscape along the Klamath River where villages once stood — flooded by a ...

A little-known fact about the Colorado River is that American Indian tribes own rights to about a quarter of the river. In reality, for most tribes, they are only “paper rights” not amounting to water ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a ...

The Stillaguamish Tribe is undertaking a multimillion-dollar effort to restore the river named for its people. The project was born out of the Endangered Species Act—Chinook salmon populations had ...

Native young people from seven tribes paddled 310 miles down the Klamath River in northern California to celebrate the restoration of the waterway. Tribes in the region had fought for years to remove ...