The personhood designation for the river is part of a broader "rights of nature" movement that aims to bestow new legal ...

CHILOQUIN, Ore. — Don Gentry stood under a pine tree on a late summer day overlooking the confluence of the Williamson River and Spring Creek. "We're at the headwaters of the Klamath River, the spring ...

The 1922 Colorado River Compact, a foundational interstate agreement that informs the management of a river that serves 40 million people, did not settle Native American tribes’ water rights. Tribes ...

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 ...

For years, members of Walker River Paiute Tribe who depend on well water have been plagued by water scarcity, brought on by a lack of infrastructure and funding. Between aging pipes, pollutants and ...

"When every citizen learns to respect this great flowing entity of water, it will continue to replenish us." Tribal community ...

This story was first published in the November edition of Conservation the Idaho Way. Silas Wilbur remembers fishing for ...

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe filed two motions in a federal district court. — -- A Native American tribe has filed the first legal challenge to block the nearly finished Dakota Access Pipeline ...

The Colorado River Indian Tribes of California and Arizona voted to give their namesake waterway the same legal rights as a ...

For years, members of the Walker River Paiute Tribe who depend on well water have been plagued by water scarcity, brought on by a lack of infrastructure and funding. Between aging pipes, pollutants ...