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US Bureau of Land Management is returning to Washington, DC, reversing a Trump administration decision
The bureau, which oversees nearly one-fifth of public lands in the US and has more than 7,000 emplo…
John L. Dorman
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At least 408 federal Native American boarding schools were run in the US and hundreds of students died, an Interior Department report says
The Interior investigation was the US's first attempt at a comprehensive accounting of the boarding…
Kelsey Vlamis
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The Biden administration is working to reverse 5 Trump-era rollbacks on protecting endangered species
The agencies plan to rescind regulations on critical habitat designations and reinstating protectio…
Lauren Frias
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sued the Biden administration because it wont let her hold a July 4 fireworks show at Mount Rushmore
Last year, former President Donald Trump spoke at the July 3 fireworks show at Mount Rushmore. This…
Connor Perrett
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Senate confirms Deb Haaland as interior secretary, making her the US's first Native American Cabinet secretary
Haaland will play a key role in pursuing Biden's climate agenda, which involves fossil-fuel product…
John L. Dorman
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3 Republican senators grilling Biden's Interior Secretary nominee Deb Haaland deny climate science
Haaland distanced herself from her claim that 'Republicans don't believe in science,' despite the o…
Eliza Relman
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Biden's picks to handle climate change in his administration 'actually represent progress - real progress'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez praised the "historic" appointment of Deb Haaland as Interior Secreta…
Charles Davis
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More than 100 elected tribal leaders plan to write a letter urging Biden to appoint an indigenous person to his cabinet
The letter suggested appointing Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, who was one of two Native American …
Lauren Frias
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Deb Haaland helming the Interior Department would be a first step in healing the 'horrible relationship' between the federal government and Native Americans, activists say
The New Mexico congresswoman and Biden's nominee for Interior Secretary would be the first-ever Nat…
Grace Panetta
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Over 300,000 bald eagles are now flying in the US, more than quadruple the number in 2009
Bald eagles reached an all-time low of 417 known nesting pairs in 1963 in the lower 48 states. Now,…
Matthew Daly
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Enraged congressional Republicans call Biden's reelection bid a sign of the apocalypse. But some of his former GOP colleagues say America can simply do better.
GOP bomb-throwers are making Joe Biden's reelection bid out to be an end-of-days scenario, warning …
Warren Rojas
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Young people to Joe Biden: You betrayed us on climate change
Activists and the first Gen-Z member of Congress, Rep. Maxwell Frost, say Biden broke his campaign …
Nicole Gaudiano
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Pete Buttigieg becomes 11th person in Biden's Cabinet to test positive for COVID-19
Only five secretaries from the White House's 15-person executive departments haven't reported a pos…
Kimberly Leonard
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The infrastructure bill is historic for Native people. Community leaders hope the investment won't end here.
Joe Biden's infrastructure bill allocates more than $11 billion to Native American communities for …
Gwen Aviles
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Biden signs executive order at Tribal Nations Summit addressing crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans
Biden ordered federal officials to identify resources and create a national strategy to address the…
Morgan Keith
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Biden declares October 11 Indigenous Peoples' Day and says restoring national monuments is the 'easiest thing I've ever done so far as President'
Biden recognized Native Americans' "vibrant and diverse" cultures, as well as the violence they end…
Morgan Keith
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Democrats introduced a bill to rename more than 1,000 forests, lakes, and mountain peaks named with racist slurs or offensive language
Places that have been flagged for offensive names include slurs for Black people, Native Americans,…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Trump backs challenger to GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who voted to convict him in second impeachment trial
In a statement, Trump threw his support behind Kelly Tshibaka, the former state commissioner of adm…
John L. Dorman
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The Biden administration suspended Trump-era Arctic drilling regulations to protect the Alaskan tundra, angering conservatives
It also came after the Biden DOJ was criticized for backing the legality of Trump's decision to sta…
Bill Bostock
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10 Things in Politics: Trump says he'll be president again by August
And no, that's not how this works at all.