‘Billy was a kid with a dream,' said Sydney Mills Farhang, Mills’ granddaughter and executive director of Running Strong. 'It's truly an honor to be able to make the dreams of other Native youth come true, in honor of my grandfather.’

The Yakama Nation is fighting a pumped hydro storage development near Goldendale, Washington – but it’s just one of many.

The rail company trespassed by increasing train traffic across reservation.

The estimated 3,000-gallon diesel leak comes as BNSF and tribe head to court in a right-of-way dispute.

Tribes along the Klamath River hope removing four dams will lead to better habitat for fish and help revitalize Native cultures that rely on salmon for sustenance and view the fish as relatives.

Habitat restoration continues on White Salmon River, where 33 miles of spawning area has been formed after the removal of Condit Dam.

Why tribes are pursuing a controversial salmon recovery strategy.

Tribes come together at Willamette Falls to celebrate the annual harvest of Pacific lamprey, a first food of Native peoples in the Pacific Northwest, in the midst of ongoing tribal conservation efforts.

In a July 28 letter, most of the federally recognized tribes in Washington pushed the state to deny permits to a developer because its project along the Columbia River would mean the unavoidable destruction or damage to sites sacred to the area’s tribal nations.

Coast Salish peoples are finally recognized at San Juan Island National Historical Park.

Amid drastic declines in Chinook salmon in the Coquille River watershed, the Coquille Indian Tribe last year began pushing the state for more authority in managing natural resources in southwest Oregon, culminating in a state commission approving an agreement on June 17.

A 1972 executive order returned the sacred Pahto mountain to tribal lands, but disputes have continued to arise, including a recent challenge that culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court affirming the tribe's standing in April.

The bills were the result of an unlikely agreement struck between conservation and logging stakeholders over expanding environmental protections.

Bryan Newland, the Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, says the money will help begin tackling a lengthy list of longstanding problems at in-lieu and treaty fishing access sites.

A restored chinook run there could add significantly to the number of anadromous fish in the entire basin.

Some families have royalty checks and second homes, while others just want their businesses to get a piece of the action.

A proposed lithium mine along the Nevada-Oregon border would produce critical materials for electric car batteries along with local jobs, but critics say the damage to the environment, including the ancestral lands of multiple tribes, isn't worth it.

Tribes work to harness energy from sun, wind and water as demand for green energy grows.

A growing industry for environmental remediation needs local workers with the right training.

After a judge dismissed charges of shellfish trafficking on treaty grounds, tribes and treaty rights organizations say the case exemplifies how Washington officials are working to undermine treaty fishing rights and agreements, which the state denies.

After a successful start to the partnership, the Coquille Indian Tribe wants to be named a co-manager of the river, a proposal backed by local governments, watershed associations and business groups. The effort comes amid a broader push by Oregon tribes to gain more authority in natural resource management and water policy decisions.

In a sit-down conversation with Underscore.news, Chuck Sams, the country’s first Native American parks director, discusses the role his agency can play in better representing Indigenous people and their stories.

In the aftermath of the Bootleg Fire, Klamath tribal leaders vow to persevere on the land where they have lived for millennia.

For the Klamath Tribes, the damage wrought by the Bootleg Fire is deeply personal.

The Klamath River flows through two states and the lands of several tribal nations. It’s home to First Foods and provides irrigation. And there’s not enough water to meet everyone’s needs.

Oregon tribes are reintroducing a species that creates important habitat for First Foods. But the Beaver State’s laws don’t work in the animal’s favor.