Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group at the foot of Avi Kwa Ame, or Spirit Mountain, just south of Searchlight, Nev. A proposal would designate the mountain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Along the western side of the Colorado River Valley between Blythe, California, and Parker, Arizona, the land slopes where it meets the Big Maria Mountains to a flat expanse of undeveloped desert.

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 ...

Typically, Erica Schenk spends her days organizing get-togethers for the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians elders — trips to play bingo or to see concerts or plays. But Schenk, the tribe's elders ...

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 ...