The California Indian Heritage Center will sit on 51 acres at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers.

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi Native American woman and her daughter walked onto a 5-acre parcel of land, ...

Intertribal Dance Singers and dancers perform during the California Native American Nations 56th Annual Native American Day at the State Capitol in 2023. Hector Amezcua The Sacramento Bee Today, on ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When Celestina Castillo filled out the ethnicity forms at her children’s school, she’d always check Latino and Native ...