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.

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.

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.

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.

At the 2023 State of Indian Nations, President Fawn Sharp’s address calls on tribes, tribal leaders to seize momentum and keep pushing forward on issues facing Indian Country.

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

1973 was a year of transition. Richard Nixon's White House had officially ended the policy of termination and was proclaiming self-determination. But termination would not go quietly.

At the behest of former chairman, the Washington tribe paid millions to gaming consultants in Oregon, trying to forestall competition from other tribes.

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.

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

Yakama citizens voted out their tribal chairman and nearly half of their tribal council over allegations they overlooked the misuse of tribal government funds and allowed subordinates to give themselves raises and bonuses during a time of widespread layoffs.

Annessa Hartman, Haudenosaunee, hopes to join Tawna Sanchez, Shoshone-Bannock, Ute and Carrizo, in the Oregon House of Representatives.

An 1855 treaty with the U.S. government ensured one of the Yakama Nation’s most important sites would remain part of its homelands. The tribe recently celebrated the decades-long effort to see that promise kept.

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

Dante Desiderio, dismissed in June, alleges NCAI officials retaliated for disagreeing over personnel matters

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.

Only one of the state’s 147 legislators is Native American, but a strong group of candidates this year is trying to boost Indigenous representation.

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.

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.

Kermit Mankiller, the former Nez Perce tribal executive, says the quarter is an "excellent representation" of his aunt Wilma, the first woman to be elected primary chief of the Cherokee Nation and now just the sixth American woman to appear on a U.S. coin.

Roselyn Tso, Navajo, has spent much of her nearly 40-year career with the agency in the Portland area.

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

Following a March 31 signing ceremony attended by tribal leaders, community members and lawmakers, the new legislation will require statewide alerts similar to when a minor or vulnerable adult goes missing.

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.

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.

More than 60 former tribal citizens in Washington are set to be kicked out of their homes in a years-long saga over disenrollment.

Oregon's Charles "Chuck" Sams III has a long list of challenges, while tribal leaders hope he will incorporate more Indigenous culture and history into the National Park Service's operations.

Critics say newly drawn state legislative maps in Oregon will make it more difficult for Native American voters to elect candidates who best represent their interests. In Washington, initial maps led to worries that the only Indigenous lawmaker in the state Legislature could lose her seat.

The summit will give tribal leaders a chance to hear about the Biden administration’s work in Indian Country and to tell the White House what they’d like to see happen.

Charles “Chuck” F. Sams III, who would become the first Indigenous person to lead the National Park Service, told senators that he would prioritize hiring more staff, addressing maintenance backlogs and consultation with tribal nations

Chuck Sams’ nomination to lead the National Park Service is a source of pride for Umatilla Tribes.

The Constitution of the Choctaw Nation bars enrollment for the descendants of enslaved Black people. Chief Gary Batton says enrollment is based on ‘a federal construct that has fueled division and racism.’

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.

The two middle-aged white men shared a common backstory: Both were raised in the rural Pacific Northwest and found a sense of greater purpose and belonging on opposite sides of radical politics. Then both ended up dead.

Native American activists see purpose with Black Lives Matter.

With the arrival of militarized federal officers, questions arise among the local protest community.