“The property is spectacular, and on top of that it repatriates land to a tribe that has had a really hard go of it over the years,” sa...

Twelve hundred acres of undeveloped property near Big Sur has been returned to the 6,000-year-old Esselen Tribe after 250 years of land...

Nearly 250 years after Spanish soldiers displaced the Esselen Tribe from their home on the Northern California coast, the Native Americ...

“The property is spectacular, and on top of that it repatriates land to a tribe that has had a really hard go of it over the years,” sa...

The land lies on the north side of the Little Sur River, where endangered steelhead fish spawn, and encompasses old-growth redwoods, oa...

Nearly 250 years ago, when Spanish soldiers built a military outpost in Monterey and Franciscan padres founded the Carmel, Soledad, and...

“It is beyond words for us, the highest honor,” said Tom Little Bear Nason, chairman of the tribe. “The land is the most important thin...

The Esselen tribe is getting nearly two square miles of its ancestral lands in the heart of Big Sur back with the closing of a complica...

The Portland, Oregon-based Western Rivers Conservancy initially negotiated to purchase the property and transfer it to the U.S. Forest ...

The Esselen Tribe of Monterey County closed escrow on 1,199 acres (485 hectares) about 5 miles (8 kilometers) inland from the ocean tha...