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New National Monument Spans 1 Million Sacred Acres Linking Indian Reservations to the Grand Canyon
1 million acres of public land to the north, south, and northeast, of Grand Canyon National Park have officially been turned into a national...
Double Supermoons and the Most Popular Meteor Shower of the Year Coming in August Stargazing
On the night of Tuesday, August 1st, a supermoon will rise over the Earth, with 99% illumination occurring during the night.
A supermoon is when...
Good News in History, July 20
50 years ago today, Congress passed the War Powers Act, a bill aimed at reaffirming the mindset of the houses of Congress that it...
Absolutely Epic: Watch the Release of a Wild Bison Herd onto Blackfeet Tribal Land
Last Monday, the Blackfeet Nation released 30 wild bison back onto their land, a project 9 years in the making that the tribe believes...
Good News in History, June 27
On this day 125 years ago, Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation in the world, amazingly, on a sailing yacht he built himself...
Good News in History, June 20
83 years ago, Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz...
Good News in History, June 8
70 years ago today, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC could not refuse to serve black patrons, invalidating “separate...
Good News in History, May 14
50 years ago today, Skylab was launched into orbit, the first and only space station to be entirely built and funded by the US....
Two Scholars Reveal Incredible Insights Into Floridian Natives Through Long-Lost Language Translations
Imagine a Classics department at a University where the historians never bothered to learn the Greek or Latin of the original texts and you'll...
Spirit Mountain, Which is Sacred to Tribes, is Designated a New National Monument
Last week President Biden continued the bipartisan executive tradition of conserving historic and scientifically significant lands by designating Spirit Mountain—Avi Kwa Ame, in Nevada...
Rare 170-Year-Old Cree Jacket Turns Up at Vintage Shop in UK–and They Want to Reunite It With Its Community
A rare Indigenous Canadian jacket believed to be more than 170 years old has turned up at a vintage clothing warehouse in the UK.
The...
‘Brave Bessie’ Gets Her Likeness on New Barbie as Mattel Honors the First Black Female Pilot
A brave young Black woman who became a pilot in the 1920s—and even walked on the wings of airplanes—has become the latest hero to...
Stargazing in December: Check Out the ‘Mars Ballet’, a Meteor Shower, and The ‘Cold Moon’
If you don't mind the nip of the cold, this month's celestial phenomena are ones to watch, and include a Nutcracker ballet between the...
California Tribe Reignites Age-Old Practice of Intermittent Burns to Prevent Wildfires
Out in the Klamath Mountains of northern California, fires are rushing through the underbrush, lighting everything they touch between the trees ablaze.
However these aren't...
Ancient 3,000 Year-old Canoe Discovered Beneath Wisconsin Lake Carved From Single Piece of Oak
The smiling face in the middle on the right side of the raft in this picture belongs to a woman who has managed to...
How Tony Hawk Joined an Apache Pro Skater to Bring New Skate Park to Reservation
When an Apache man moved to a new town and found it needed a skatepark, he and the tribe petitioned skating legend Tony Hawk...
Onondaga Nation Celebrates First Land Return of 1,000 Acres in New York’s Tully Valley Following Legal Settlement
In a rare moment of return for East Coast Native Americans, the Onondaga Nation has had 1,023 acres of ancestral land in New York...
Breakthrough Zero-Carbon Fertilizer Set to Take Root Across the World as ‘Biochar’
Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
Imagine if every time you threw out your lawn...
‘The Greatest American Frontier Hero’ Was a Former Slave: The Story of Bass Reeves
Even the most clichéd screenwriter in Hollywood could be made to feel ridiculous and over-the-top if they wrote a story with a character called...
500 Acres of Old Growth Redwood Forests Donated to Tribal Council for Lasting Protection in Mendocino, Calif
For a second time, the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League has orchestrated a donation of coastal redwood forestland to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council...