How Native Nations Are Tackling the Opioid Epidemic
Tribal nations and Indigenous-led organizations are increasing their efforts to support those struggling with substance use disorder. Many are turning to medication-assisted treatment vans as a way to expand access to care.
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Portland Pilots Basketball Player Accepts Position with Team

College basketball star Kianna Hamilton, citizen of the Osage Nation, finishes out her last season of college ball on the University of Portland women’s basketball team and looks to her new role as director of basketball operations for the Portland Pilots.

City of Portland Staffs Downsized Tribal Relations Office

Once a three-person program, the city’s tribal relations office sat empty for months. On Friday, city leaders announced that Adam Becenti, Diné, will be the new Tribal Relations Program manager.

NEWS & FEATURES

In Memoriam: Native Comic Artist Jeffrey Veregge

After battling lupus for over two years, renowned comic artist from the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, Jeffrey Veregge, passed away from a heart attack at 50.

Your guide to the 2024 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

This year’s gathering of global Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers puts a spotlight on youth.

Eliminating blood quantum requirements for US-Canada crossing

New legislation could end the decades-old policy requiring proof of blood quantum to cross between the U.S. and Canada, which has violated the rights of Native nations to establish their own citizenship requirements.

‘Rooted in Tradition’

Meet Mikailah Thompson, Nimíipuu and Black, entrepreneur and spring 2024 seasonal artist for Canada-based and Indigenous-rooted brand Manitobah.

Quinault Indian Nation Wellness Courts Replace Punishment with Empowerment

The Quinault Indian Nation’s court system focuses on individual healing from addiction, instead of criminalization and punishment.

Javelina: Bringing Indigenous Cuisine to Portland

The only Native pop-up restaurant in Portland brings Indigenous comfort foods and traditional first foods to the city’s fine dining scene.

Flexing Food Sovereignty

Flexing Our Sovereignty: An Introduction to Underscore's Food Sovereignty Project

Series Co-Manager Nicole Charley introduces a series of stories about traditional Indigenous knowledge and practices that honor and strengthen the relationship to the plants and animals that sustain all of us.

How Indigenous Nations Are Rebuilding Food Systems

Local food, grounded in cultural and spiritual values, forms the basis for a growing food sovereignty movement.

Root Down: At Warm Springs, a New Generation Leads the Feast

As the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs holds traditional first foods feasts in its ceremonial longhouses for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, tribal youth have stepped up to carry the knowledge of the many elders who passed during the pandemic.

Breaking the Law to Uphold it

Legal challenges protect tribal rights to traditional fishing, hunting and gathering.

How Acorns Carry Cultural Knowledge

An Indigenous writer reflects on learning to make acorns into San-chvn-tuu-’i’ or ‘juice of the acorn,’ a hot porridge and staple food.

When Food is Much More than a Commodity

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians leverages government-issued commodities to build a resilient food system that nourishes tribal members. It’s paying off.

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Sovereign Justice: Data-Driven Reporting Project

Sovereign Justice

The growing power of tribal courts is on full display at the Umatilla Indian Reservation.

On an Ancient Road, Tribal Elders Wage a Relentless Battle

The government bulldozed an Indigenous religious site along a busy Oregon highway, but tribal elders and their families still visit Ana Kwna Nchi Nchi Patat in order to satisfy their religious obligations. Now, the elders want the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their claim to restore the site.

The Chinook Nation’s Existential Fight for Recognition

Chinook people have fought for federal status for close to two centuries. This portrait shows what federal recognition means for the nation’s land base, healthcare, education and legal protections. But, more than anything, tribal members want to be recognized for who they are, and who they have been for millennia.

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Indigenous Survivors: Voices of Resilience

Justice Lags for Indigenous Survivors of Violence

For Indigenous families, the struggle to prosecute crimes committed by non-Natives on tribal land has created lasting trauma.

Desireé Coyote's Fight to Empower Survivors of Violence

Coyote's story, told through hours of interviews and documents, reveals how years of trauma and systemic failures drove her to advocate for survivors like her.

Indigenous Survivors: Voices of Resilience

Three Indigenous women in Oregon, all survivors of violence who have become advocates in the footsteps of Desireé Coyote, share their personal stories in an effort to inspire and help other survivors.

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