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 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 ...

‍ WARNING: Native American boarding schools, death, abuse. Last week, a tattered blue mattress and mounds of trash littered the entrance to the Chemawa Cemetery – the final resting place of ...

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, ...

The Klamath Tribes in southern Oregon have not seen salmon, much less been able to fish for them, for over a century now, ever since seven dams in the Klamath Basin were erected as part of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A stretch of land in Southern Oregon with historical significance — including the likely location of a treaty signing and near the site of a massacre — is returning to the Confederated Tribes of ...

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 ...

In this photo, taken in the 1980s in the Umatilla Tribal Court’s original location (an office inside the reservation gymnasium), Judge David Gallaher and current Chief Judge William Johnson surround ...