For the first time, a federally recognized Indigenous tribe has led a genetic study confirming their ancestral connection to ...

The Picuris Pueblo, a sovereign nation in New Mexico, has oral histories and cultural traditions that link the tribe to the ...

The withdrawal from oil and gas development was put in place by then-Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in 2023.

The Ancestral Puebloans, along with other tribal groups, occupied this land and inhabited sites such as Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon and Canyon de Chelly. Today, the region is home to the descendants of ...

New research on the magnificent Chaco Canyon architecture that flourished 1000 years ago. This striking film illustrates ground-breaking research on the magnificent Chaco Canyon architecture that ...

They trace ancestral connections to the famed complex of sandstone dwellings and roads at Chaco Canyon, a World Heritage site about 125 miles to the west. But the small tribe didn’t have a ...

A thousand years ago, the people living in Chaco Canyon were building massive structures of intricate masonry and trading with locations as far away as Mexico. Within a century, however ...

Lasers have revealed a 1,000-year-old sacred road near Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. Researchers say the road was part of an Indigenous ritual landscape, serving as a path between natural springs ...

Builders finished the West Ruin between 1100-1130. This huge U-shaped building is originally stood three stories tall with ...

In 2023, when the Department of the Interior finalized Public Land Order 7923, withdrawing federal lands surrounding Chaco Canyon from future federal mineral leasing for 20 years, many of us ...

Chaco Canyon National Historical Park is nestled deep in the Navajo Nation of modern-day New Mexico. Surrounded by desert and only accessible by unpaved roads, it usually receives fewer than 5000 ...

The Picuris Pueblo, a sovereign nation in New Mexico, has oral histories and cultural traditions that link the tribe to the region of Chaco Canyon, one of the ancient centers of Pueblo culture and ...