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At Anahuacalmecac International University Preparatory of North America, where Aguilar also serves as executive director, ...

California's casino-owning Native American tribes have flexed their political power yet again, getting legislation passed that directly attacks their business rivals and protects their own interests.

Chuckwalla National Monument is a protected area spanning 624,000 acres in the Southern California desert. Native American tribes throughout the area consider this landscape sacred and an important ...

The battle between tribal casinos and cardrooms is the epitome of a no-win proposition for California politicians. This bitter feud, which may be coming to a head in a Sacramento County courtroom, ...

California unveiled a plan Tuesday to bring at least 7.5 million acres of land and coastal waters under the care of Indigenous tribes. That number represents roughly 7% of the state's land and waters.

Some Native leaders say the omission is not an oversight — it is a structural problem baked into the framework itself.

A few months ago, while visiting the rooftop bar at a Residence Inn in Berkeley, I picked up the city’s glossy “official visitors’ guide” and searched it for the historical nuggets that these kinds of ...

Imagine your relatives’ bones stored in the basement of an unfamiliar university or museum. Boxes of ancestors and artifacts are often stacked on top of each other, for use in research, education or ...

Members of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tilhini Northern Chumash Tribe survey open space in San Luis Obispo ahead of a planned cultural burn in coordination with the California Department of Forestry and ...