A group at the foot of Avi Kwa Ame, or Spirit Mountain, just south of Searchlight, Nev. A proposal would designate the mountain and over 443,000 surrounding acres as Avi Kwa Ame National Monument.

The Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe, the Cahuilla Band of Indians, the Chemehuevi ...

This desert tourist really walked the walk. Caitlin Redden, from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, was visiting Petra, Jordan when she was invited to stay with a nomadic desert tribe for a day — and nearly ...

Editor’s Note: This article is a part of a larger story about how the Walker River Paiute Tribe of Nevada responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. The tribe saw the outbreak as both an existential threat ...

For many sovereign tribal nations who call the desert home, water insecurity is a reality that shapes everyday life. For too long, the needs of tribal communities across the country have been ...

NPCA is standing with local communities and Tribes to fight a destructive groundwater mining project that would drain 16 billion gallons of water each year from beneath the California desert At the ...

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Coachella Valley Water District and Desert Water Agency have agreed to settle two long running water rights lawsuits, which the three parties said in a news ...

SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. — The remote mountain from which Mojave Desert tribes believe the universe unfolds rises above a corner of southwestern Nevada defined by Joshua trees, outcroppings, and ...