FEATURED STORY
COVID-19 Hurting Salmon Market, Creating Risky Conditions for Tribal Fishers
The novel coronavirus outbreak is making it harder for Native Americans to fish along the Columbia River. Depleted salmon runs and the federal government’s failure to improve fishing sites had already impacted culturally and economically important harvests.
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INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT
It's His Land. Now a Canadian Company Gets to Take It.
Federal regulators have given a Canadian oil company the power to seize property from Oregon landowners for a gas pipeline that will help … Canada.
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FEATURED SERIES
Lesson Plans
This series is a collaboration between Underscore and Pamplin Media Group focused on how rural Oregon schools are grappling with COVID-19 in the 2020-21 school year.
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FEATURED STORIES

March 2, 2021

Race and Tribal Sovereignty Clash in Congressional Dispute Over Enrollment

Members of Congress are threatening to hold up housing funds for tribes. To the chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, it’s infringing on tribal sovereignty. For those seeking citizenship, it’s a chance to change a ‘system of hidden anti-Black racism.’

January 12, 2021

COVID-19 Hurting Salmon Market, Creating Risky Conditions for Tribal Fishers

The novel coronavirus outbreak is making it harder for Native Americans to fish along the Columbia River. Depleted salmon runs and the federal government’s failure to improve fishing sites had already impacted culturally and economically important harvests.

January 8, 2021

Working Through Challenges in Rural Oregon

As high school students juggle responsibilities of a job or child care, one school district experiments with evening tutoring.

INDIAN COUNTRY

February 26, 2021

What Deb Haaland’s Appointment Means

If Rep. Deb Haaland is appointed by Congress, she will oversee the Department of Interior, managing “the earth, mountains, forests, rivers—and Indians”, a federal agency that has upended life for Native Americans for decades.

December 9, 2020

Deadline to Spend COVID-19 Funds has Oregon Tribes on Edge

Relief money provided by the CARES Act must be spent by Dec. 30. With Congress fighting over additional stimulus, Oregon tribal governments are left wondering how they’ll provide services next year.

December 1, 2020

Coronavirus Makes Feeding Hungry People Harder

The COVID-19 pandemic shuttered facilities at Portland’s Native American Youth and Family Center. Now the organization is finding ways to offer services remotely, including getting food to families who are at a high risk of going hungry.

RURAL EDUCATION + COVID-19

January 21, 2021

Rural Schools Battled Bad Internet, Low Attendance in the Pandemic. Will Spring Semester Be Better?

Incomplete data show academic slippage as many K-12 students learned from home. The push is now on to return to the classroom — safely.

January 8, 2021

Trying to Make Learning 'Magical' in Madras

Teachers in the Central Oregon school district have gotten creative and put extra energy into engaging their students online.

January 8, 2021

Culver Teachers Connect with Kids in Person and Online

The small, high-desert district, one of the few to host in-person classes, has a 94% attendance rate.

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