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 ...

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation marked the 170th anniversary of the 1855 Walla Walla Treaty signing. Back Row left to right: Gabriella Calvilla, unidentified man, Ashleigh ...

A project 23 years in the making, the Yurok Tribe and Western Rivers Conservancy jointly achieved the largest land back deal in California’s history this May. With over 47,000 acres of ancestral lands ...

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 ...

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 ...

“These values that we embody, they need to be learned by these people here,” Hillaire said. “All these rich people here need to learn how to share more. They need to learn gratitude more. So that’s ...

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 ...

Jarrette is a multimedia journalist with experience in digital news, audio reporting and photojournalism. He joined Underscore in June 2022 in partnership with the national Report for America program.

Editor’s note: Support for this reporting came from the Poynter Institute with funds from the Gill Foundation. Read other stories in this series here, here and here. The colonial legacies of ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Support for this reporting came from the Poynter Institute with funds from the Gill Foundation. Read other stories in this series here and here. Listeners tuning into the first episode ...

Shuína Skó resides on their maternal homelands of the Marsh people of Klamath Tribes in present-day Southern Oregon. Their great-great-great-great-grandfather, Chinchallo MukHas, was an original ...