Water Warriors made national news last month when they took to Puyallup tribal waters in a traditional Nisqually canoe calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, temporarily blocking a military ship. Their fight against oppression didn’t start or end there.

A new report from the Trevor Project shows LGBTQ2S+ Indigenous youth face a disproportionate rate of mental health challenges. The report's recommendations mirror work being done by local Indigenous organizations.

Notably, the tentative contract gets rid of mandatory minimum suspensions, which contribute to disproportionate rates of suspension for Native and Black students.

During a time of year that can be hard for many, especially Indigenous people, community members in Portland are organizing alternatives to Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

Hundreds of Indigenous community members came together in celebration of Native American Heritage Month during the Portland Trail Blazers versus Oklahoma City Thunder game.

The documentary reveals the struggles of Indigenous journalists to freely cover tribal governments. The movie will screen Nov. 26 at Portland Art Museum’s Tomorrow Theater, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Underscore News.

Proposed constitutional amendments to exclude state recognized tribes from voting membership of the National Congress of American Indians failed on Thursday.

One of the policies at issue in negotiations between teachers and Oregon’s largest school district contributes to disproportionate rates of suspension for Native and Black students. Both sides say they want to change the policy. Will they?

Northwest youth leaders advanced their communities’ agendas at the White House Tribal Youth Forum.

County leaders dismissed concerns over plans for a luxury resort in the high desert of Central Oregon, while local officials say they’ll do more in the future to consult tribal governments.

After years of planning and fundraising, a tiny home village for Indigenous families experiencing houselessness has a permanent home at the former Presbyterian Church of Laurelhurst.

Launching in Seattle, Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh and Mato Wayuhi, will bring the “2 the Moon and Back Tour” to 8 cities across the country.

Students at Siletz Valley School objected to the school’s refusal to observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The school principal later berated them for walking out in protest, but in the end, they were successful: the school board voted to designate the day an official holiday.

Students at Siletz Valley School objected to the school’s refusal to observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The school principal later berated them for walking out in protest.

The Northwest Native Chamber aims to uplift Indigenous economies. On Thursday, it celebrated Native entrepreneurs, students, chefs and designers with an epic party.

After nearly two centuries, the Salmon River Outpost has become a hub for Indigenous community members.

Executive Director of Friends of Tryon Creek Gabe Sheoships, Cayuse and Walla Walla, is a recipient of the 2023 Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Awards.

The second annual Northwest Native Fashion Show was a festival of cultural celebration. Organizers see it as a way to merge traditional and Western culture, using skills passed through countless generations to build community wealth.

Protesters were celebrating a county decision to postpone replacement of a statue of a notoriously brutal conquistador when a man in a MAGA hat shot Spokane, Wash. artist and activist Jacob Johns.

Canada is approaching its third official Truth and Reconciliation Day, known as Orange Shirt Day. Hate speech and confrontations are growing there over the truth about missing children, graves and genocide.

A Sundance chief and Portland-area nonprofit founder, 74-year-old John Bravehawk has mentored youth and advised Sundance leaders for decades.

The Washington Corrections Center for Women Sisterhood Powwow brought imprisoned women together with family and friends for a day of celebration.

After a four-year pause, the Native American Youth and Family Center powwow returned to Neerchokikoo.

Land trusts in Oregon are beginning to transform from their white-led roots, toward models based on Indigenous values and leadership.

The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Embassy will be a central hub and a base for political action for its members: 57 Pacific Northwest tribes.

For Native hip-hop artist Kunu Bearchum, music serves as an outlet for cultural connection and social justice.

Land that was for centuries an Indigenous village is now a permanent home for the Native American Youth and Family Center.

Miami Seaquarium orca dies of possible renal failure as plans were being made for her return to her native Pacific Northwest.

A federal judge sentenced Shoni Schimmel to two years of probation on Friday.

While working on an essay for an upcoming anthology edited by the writer Lidia Yuknavitch, poet Elizabeth Woody reflects on the themes of her career.

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde can now issue hunting and fishing licenses to its citizens under a historic agreement with the state, despite opposition from other tribes who object to the agreement’s inclusion of Willamette Falls.

The North Tide Yaakw Ḵwáan canoe family arrived at Alki Beach after a 1,500-mile journey from Haines, Alaska with a flag flying from the mast, a skipper who waited 20 years for the journey, and women with red handprints across their faces.

Organizers estimated 11,000 people gathered at the Muckleshoot Reservation to share songs and dances for days after 120 canoe families landed at Alki Beach in Seattle.

For the next week, canoe families will participate in protocol at the Muckleshoot Community Center. “It’s kind of like a more traditional version of a powwow,” said Jolene Lozier.

The return of the Columbia River Indian Fisher’s Expo provided training and resources to help tribal members improve their fishing practices.

After graduating from Oregon State in December of 2019, in the midst of the pandemic, online shopping at an all-time high and his job hunt at a standstill, Osage Nation citizen Charlie PeBenito decided to take a leap.

The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe will host this year, with the theme “honoring our warriors, past and present.” Underscore News will be there to provide live coverage.

“Our commitment to this place, to this water is in our blood,” Grand Ronde Councilwoman Kathleen George said Friday. “It’s deep in our bones. It’s a chance to be with our ancestors and with the river.”

Yakama Nation hosted a celebration marking another season of lamprey harvest at the Willamette Falls.

Four artists were honored for their work with the Two Spirit community in an energetic, vibrant and celebratory atmosphere.

The tribal council fires, evicts and disenrolls without cause, members say.

‘My Father’s Father’s Sister’ explores the life of a 19th-century Two-Spirit Atfalati Kalapuya healer named Shimkhin.

Four tribes are working with PGE to plan public access at the second largest falls in the United States, which has been inaccessible since industrialists dammed the falls and lined the river with paper mills 150 years ago.

Anthony Hudson’s first public drag performance was for his senior showcase at McNary High School in Keizer, Oregon. Today, he performs as Carla Rossi on stages across the world.

The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe hopes to preserve the Snoqualmie Falls and other ancestral sites for future generations through a new 2% land protection tax. Leaders say it’s a model for other tribes working to reclaim their ancestral lands.

The University of Washington in Tacoma partnered with the tribal college to train the inaugural graduates of the Muckleshoot Cohort, a doctorate in education program for educators working with tribes.

Author Linda Meanus shares the inspiration for her first book, ‘My Name is Lamoosh.'

Four tribes in Oregon can now issue hunting and fishing licenses for their citizens under the agreements, based on harvest limits informed by tribal values. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shelved its planned agreement with a fifth tribe.

During nearly seven years there, Lumley built the Native American Youth and Family Center into an economically powerful organization and more than doubled the affordable housing properties it runs.

The ruling is a major victory for tribal sovereignty. "The bottom line is that we reject all of petitioners’ challenges to the statute," Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the majority opinion upholding the law.

Laura John’s mission was to make Indigenous voices heard at City Hall. On Monday, Miranda Mishan, who has worked with John for two years, took over the role.

Police and private security for a Canadian mining company arrested an Indigenous protester and demolished a protest blockade on Wednesday that was erected by descendants of a survivor of the 1865 massacre at the site, according to land and water defenders who were there.

The Cully Farmers Market, hosted by the Native American Youth and Family Center, runs every Thursday this summer, highlighting about a dozen Indigenous vendors.

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community is one step closer to a modern clam garden on tribal territory.

The Native American Youth and Family Center invited students from all over Portland to show up authentically at Queer Prom.

The former WNBA star will plead guilty at a sentencing hearing in August. Her sentence is unclear, but a similar case shows one potential outcome.

The new state law banning the social media app has prompted some in Indian Country to ask if tribal sovereignty extends to technology, specifically data.

Kathryn Harrison was a key leader in efforts to restore Grand Ronde's federal recognition. At the time of her passing, Harrison was the oldest Grand Ronde tribal member, at the age of 99.

Serina Fast Horse is helping the city of Portland change the way it thinks about environmental preservation.

The Intertribal Canoe Journey is back this year, after a three-year break during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Native and Strong Lifeline provides mental health support to Native people in crisis across Washington state.

In an accord with the Sauk-Suittle Indian Tribe, the city of Seattle agreed to create passageways so salmon can swim past three hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River.

An idea sparked by Warm Springs teens culminated this spring in a new skate park enjoyed by community members of all ages.

Coast Salish youths revive land management and harvest practices on their ancestral prairie.

Private collectors are now trying to repatriate items of cultural, historic and traditional importance to their place of origin.

At a bootcamp aimed at cultivating leadership among Indigenous women, the goal is community and connection. Leaders hope more Native women will see themselves as candidates for public office.

Twenty years ago, tribal youth founded the Salmon Run to call for the removal of four dams along the Klamath River. This year’s run will coincide with work to demolish them.

‘It's a really exciting time to be a Native person in Hollywood,’ Jana Schmieding said. ‘Especially as a storyteller and as a writer.’

Two of the new environmental justice centers in the Pacific Northwest seek to amplify the voices of tribes and other communities particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change. They will get part of a recent $177 million award from the Environmental Protection Agency shared between 17 groups.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek reiterated that she will maintain the policies of former Governors John Kitzhaber and Kate Brown regarding tribal gaming in Oregon.

Meagan Byrne wants to create a world where Indigenous gamers can envision a post-Colonial future.

‘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.

A $3.7M grant to the Native American Youth and Family Center will replace baseball fields with food gardens and cultural sites.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The Vatican issued a statement rejecting a series of declarations by popes in the 15th Century that formed a legal and political justification for colonization and are still relevant in federal law today.

The landmark 1823 Supreme Court case enshrined the Doctrine of Discovery in U.S. law, setting a precedent that has undermined tribal sovereignty ever since.

The rail company trespassed by increasing train traffic across reservation.

The Dolphin Company and Friends of Lolita announced a formal agreement and promise to return the orca from Florida to her home waters in the Salish Sea.

A judge resentenced Herbert Rice Jr., undoing a life sentence the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a decade ago. Rice, a citizen of the Colville Tribes, is one of about 2,500 U.S. prisoners held on life sentences without parole imposed when they were minors.

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

Offended by multiple employees who told her to remove her traditional woven willow baby carrier, Sophie Weinstein left the Portland Art Museum’s exhibit on Yankton Sioux artist Oscar Howe. The incident caused an uproar.

Indigenous mushers sweep the top three spots for the first time in 50 years.

Employee told an Indigenous woman she was not allowed to wear the carrier while visiting an exhibit of Native American art at the museum.

Despite controversy, the 50-foot cedar poles could be reinstalled before Seattle's Victor Steinbrueck Park reopens this fall.

Short international films rooted in Native issues received nominations for the Oscars.

Alaska Native language professor estimates only about 200 speakers are actively using the Lingít language.

Three decades after a federal law required institutions to return “cultural items” and remains to their Indigenous nations, Western Washington University still possesses a vast majority of its collection. Western was among the more than 600 institutions nationwide in possession of more than 210,000 remains, according to the Repatriation Database released by ProPublica in January.

When Bobbie Hill returned home from treatment for addiction, she knew she wanted to do something to help others on their journey to sobriety. So she started a business.

The AIM occupation of 1973 endures in a new generation of Native activists at Standing Rock and other protests.

Unanimously approved by the MMIWP Task Force, HB 1177 would launch a permanent and fully funded statewide unit.

Indigenous community in Manitoba continues protests over police refusal to search for remains.

Black Belt Eagle Scout gears up for a spring tour, after the release of the band’s third album.

Native American people are incarcerated at rates up to seven times higher than white people in the United States.

What was described by a tribal leader as a benchmark achievement in a landback initiative has inspired what could become landmark litigation.