Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and ...

In a bid to rejuvenate local economies and increase population, several U.S. states are offering free land incentives. These initiatives aim to attract new residents and businesses, providing ...

On Sunday's episode of The Excerpt podcast: Black Americans have lost millions of acres of land due to systemic failures and legal loopholes. Saul Blair’s story is one of heartbreak, resilience and ...

A little over a month after the federal government filed a lawsuit for the Free Land Holders’ “unlawful” claim of 1,400 acres of Forest Service land outside Mancos, they submitted a 50-page response.

The self-identified ambassador for a group trying to claim a swath of a public land in southwestern Colorado this week filed a rambling, partially handwritten response to a federal lawsuit trying to ...

Sara Kehaulani Goo's family, who have owned land in Hana, Maui for nearly 200 years, almost lost it due to a property tax hike. The tax increase was triggered by satellite imagery revealing the land ...

Honestly, it’s all ancestral land. We thought like Natives do. We thought the settlers would never disturb their own graves, and so you think that [ours] would never be disturbed. As Natives, we think ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MANCOS — Stacks of historic documents and copies of nearly 100-year-old deeds blanketed a pingpong table in what Patrick Pipkin described as the Free Land ...