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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

A blessing and celebration took place Oct. 2 along the Pacific Northwest waterway.

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

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.