LAS VEGAS (AP) — Congress is being asked to transfer more than 100,000 acres of federal land to Native American tribes at sites in northern and southern Nevada to provide space for housing ...

Long before Mormons settled at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Genoa or Mexican trader Antonio Armijo coined the term “Las Vegas” en route to Los Angeles, Native tribes roamed the Silver ...

"As a native, and as the tribe that actually had that land granted by the federal government back in the 1800s, he really doesn't got a right at all," Lee says. "If anybody's got a right it would ...

Native Americans in Southern Nevada celebrate milestones, community. Sol Martinez in regalia for a land acknowledgement ceremony at Las Vegas Indian Center. Eztli Amaya / Courtesy ...

On the southernmost tip of Nevada, south of Las Vegas, sits Avi Kwa Ame, the Mojave name for Spirit Mountain. The surrounding land is the place of origin for 10 Yuman-speaking tribes of the Mojave ...

Politics Las Vegas Is Counting on Public Lands to Power its Growth. Is it a Good Idea? As Nevada and other Western states look to spread out across more federal land, environmentalists and ...