For the past several months, the University Libraries staff have been curating a portion of the new University Libraries mining exhibit, “Nuggets: Short Stories About Nevada Mining,” which features ...

CRESCENT VALLEY, Nev. — They sit side-by-side under a poplar tree they once climbed as girls, talking about what they have talked about endlessly for decades. On this day, two dozen wide-eyed college ...

Carrie Dann, a Native American land rights activist, Nevada rancher and longtime leader of the Western Shoshone Nation who fought the federal government for decades, has died. Dann and her younger ...

ELKO, Nev. -- Carrie Dann admits that her head is as hard as the rock she ranches. She is a grandmother who swears and smokes and still works cattle from the top of a tall horse. And make no mistake, ...

In the world of anti-nuclear activism — against both nuclear power and nuclear weapons — hope can sometimes feel illusory; victories almost impossible. A moment of glory, such as the passage of the ...

In Nevada, Indigenous leader, land rights activist and water protector Carrie Dann has died at the age of 88. Beginning in the 1970s, Carrie Dann and her sister Mary refused to pay grazing fees to the ...

Activist Mary Dann, who with her sister helped represent the Shoshone Nation in its effort to reclaim millions of acres they claimed as their ancestral land, has died in an accident on her rural ...

Below: Carrie Dann gestures in photo (left), and stands with her sister Mary Dann (right) at their ranch near Crescent Valley, Nev. The two Western Shoshone sisters have battled the federal government ...

She struggled to win recognition of tribal rights to a territory stretching across four states. Some tribe members accepted money to end the dispute; she refused. By The Associated Press Carrie Dann, ...