Watch: Aerial footage of “classic Western landscape” that city of Santa Clara sold to Lake Tahoe-area tribe for $6 million

On Wednesday, the Washoe Tribe, who have lived around Lake Tahoe for thousands of years but were pushed off their lands in the 1850s during the Gold Rush by settlers, miners and loggers, announced a historic deal to reclaim some of their ancestral territory.

The tribe spent $6 million to buy Loyalton Ranch, a scenic 10,274-acre property 35 miles north of Lake Tahoe in Sierra and Lassen counties, from the city of Santa Clara for $6 million. City leaders had purchased the property, which is home to to herds of pronghorn antelope...