Hundreds of people gathered in Oregon City for the fourth annual Willamette Falls Lamprey Celebration last week to commemorate the renewed momentum of the Tribal Pacific Lamprey Restoration Plan. As ...

Nika is a journalist with a passion for working to center the voices and experiences of communities often left behind in mainstream media coverage. Of Osage and Oneida Nations descent, with Northern ...

Hundreds gathered at Bullard’s Beach in Bandon, Oregon, where the Coquille River runs into the Pacific Ocean, on June 28. People came from all over the country for the 35th annual First Salmon ...

Every attendee went home with braids of sweet grass as a way to say thank you for showing up and supporting Barbie’s Village. “We’re gifting you one of my favorite traditional medicines, the sweet ...

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde celebrated the imminent opening of its second opioid treatment facility Monday, this one in the tribe’s homelands in Portland. In April 2021, the tribe opened ...

Alice Sampson is pictured on the Warm Springs Reservation. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy / Underscore News) ‍ First Foods take care of the people ‍ The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs believe that ...

and Nika Bartoo-Smith Underscore News + ICT Two tribes in Oregon made historic agreements with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife on Friday that affirm the rights of their members to hunt, ...

and Nika Bartoo-Smith Just north of where the Klamath and Salmon Rivers meet, there’s a small cinder block grocery store. A sign out front reads “new ownership.” Founded during the mid-1800s gold rush ...

Aaron Gilliam plants organic vegetable starts for Samish Nation elders in the summer of 2021. Many elders received vegetable starts and soil to plant in their own garden. (Photo courtesy of the Samish ...

In addition to serving in the Gulf War as a Navy Intelligence Officer, Sams has worked for more than three decades in tribal, state and federal government, as well as in the nonprofit natural resource ...

The Naselle Youth Camp, which was used to incarcerate juveniles for more than 50-years, closed its doors in 2022, and now sits vacant. The Chinook Indian Nation are asking the state to give the land ...

I started my journalism career at the Navajo Times where I lived and breathed arts and culture reporting. I went to holiday markets, bazaars, craft shows, flea markets, art markets and more. All ...