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.

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 ...

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 ...

Six tribes across the greater Coachella Valley were awarded more than $930,000 in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support affordable housing initiatives.

Chuckwalla National Monument is a protected area spanning 624,000 acres in the Southern California desert. Native American tribes throughout the area consider this landscape sacred and an important ...

Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...

The five tribal nation flags are now on display inside the NMU Superior Dome, representing The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, the Sault Ste. Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians, the Bay Mills Indian ...

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 ...