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.

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.

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.

After its 2021 opening of the first tribally run opioid treatment clinic in Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde have launched a second location.

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

The Imprint walks readers through highlights of the Brackeen v. Haaland case.

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

Roger Nyhus founded a Seattle-based public relations company, and served as communications director for both a mayor and a governor.

While the national discussion surrounding this issue often focuses on reservations, the majority of Native Americans live in cities and also experience high rates of violence. In Portland, home to one of the country’s largest urban Indigenous populations, the city’s tribal relations director is spearheading efforts to tackle the problem.

Oregon's police training academy is crafting curriculum to address the gaps, while a tribal police chief calls for law enforcement to receive more comprehensive historical education.

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

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.

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.

Access to abortion was already difficult for Indigenous women and people who birth before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision, due to the Hyde Amendment banning the use of federal money for abortion care.

'Where this Court once stood firm, today it wilts,’ Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the dissent opinion, while reaction throughout Indian Country was swift, with a law professor saying the ruling 'dismissively and casually cuts apart tribal independence.'

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.

Activists say overturning Roe v. Wade would be another move in a long history of federal policies that have impacted Indigenous people’s right to choose when and if they have children.

As conversation shifts to prevention and intervention, events on May 2-6 include virtual powwows and panels, discussions on law enforcement, proclamations and an in-person community gathering at South Hawthorne Waterfront Park.

A lawsuit filed in state court comes after an appeal from the United Nations failed to convince the U.S. to intervene in planned evictions.

Federal and tribal regulations cut benefits for people earning even poverty wages, but help is on the way to put people to work.

Leadership, including President Fawn Sharp of the Quinault Indian Nation in Washington state, met in Arizona to work on a ‘strategic direction’ for the organization.

Native groups organized a rally in Rapid City, South Dakota on March 23, while a federal civil rights class-action lawsuit was filed against Grand Gateway Hotel.

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.

A 2019 U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirmed off-reservation hunting treaty rights for the Crow Tribe. Wyoming officials have been resisting that decision ever since, despite recent losses in state courts.

Three tribal leaders who started the case want the federal government to restore an important religious site they say the government unnecessarily destroyed for a highway-widening project in 2008 near Oregon’s Mt. Hood.