Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tribal representatives speak on panel during 2025 Colorado River Water Users Association. (Left to Right) Jenny Dumas, water ...

The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant personhood rights to a river. 'Aha Kwahwat, or the Colorado River, has been at the heart of ...

In the years leading up to Colorado statehood, nearly all of the territory’s western half still belonged to the Ute people, who had inhabited the northern Colorado Plateau for centuries.

DENVER, Colorado — A bipartisan bill advancing through the Colorado Legislature would grant enrolled members of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe free access to more than forty ...

PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he’s driving into park. Within seconds, he unrolls a fire hose and opens a hydrant, sending water flowing ...

A federal judge ruled Oct. 23 that sports betting overseen by Colorado’s two tribes must abide by the state’s laws, subjecting the sovereign nations to a possible 10% tax on online sports betting. U.S ...

The town of Meeker this year will be one of a handful Colorado communities hosting a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit on Native Americans.

For three days next week, water leaders from across the Colorado River Basin will gather in Las Vegas to talk about water and the looming failure of the seven basin states to work out differences on a ...

In October 2023, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Nation, based in eastern Washington state, accepted a request from Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW) to live-capture 15 wolves on their 1.4 ...

Colorado lawmakers are considering a proposal that would ban Native American mascots in public schools and colleges amid a nationwide push for racial justice that gained new momentum last year ...