The Supreme Court will have to sort through more than 150 years of byzantine rules and regulations to determine the fate—and the future—of a drying West.

The high court catches a case that’s both dizzyingly complicated and relatively simple: Are tribal governments a legitimate part of the U.S. constitutional order?

The Roberts court is showing a troubling propensity to be the willing dupe of plaintiffs with the right kind of tale to tell.

All across the country, law students are studying for a test that the high court has made obsolete.

The justice’s contemptuous denunciations of the majority opinion drew an unusually caustic response from his fellow conservative Brett Kavanaugh.

The United States of America will be a vastly different country by the end of the month.

The high court’s ruling in a 2020 case upended Oklahoma’s relationship with Indian country. Now the justices are considering an even bigger step.

In a true government-to-government relationship, the United States would properly consult with tribal nations—and, crucially, tribes could reject America’s plans. Can we ever get there?

The Roberts court may have no choice but to resolve a sprawling case that threatens the Indian Child Welfare Act and the legal regime that has supported Native people.

The state is making a breathtakingly cynical demand that the high court strip Native Americans of protections they were granted only last year.

The Washington governor and climate darling vetoed a measure requiring tribal consent for projects on sacred sites. It was a striking betrayal.

As drought and climate change make fires worse, officials are returning to Native nations’ time-tested techniques. Returning the land would be better.

The administration appears committed to tribal sovereignty and empowering Indian Country to help build a sustainable future.

Habitat loss and climate change are decimating the species. What can the U.S. learn from Oklahoma tribes’ efforts to restore their migratory path?

The congresswoman from New Mexico could make history if confirmed as head of the Department of the Interior. But there’s more to the story than that.

There is no way to separate the emergencies of the pandemic from the preexisting structural conditions forged by America’s legacy of broken trust responsibilities.

The Republican governor has fueled South Dakota’s pandemic spiral, and she’s trying to take tribal nations down with her.

After working against tribal nations as California’s attorney general, she’s now in a position to advance the fight for their sovereignty.

In upholding the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s treaty-guaranteed lands, the justices did something simple but unexpected.

The public airing of Supreme Court arguments has laid bare just how ill-equipped the justices are to handle the basic tenets of Indian law.