After decades of work toward federal recognition with Congresswoman Gluesenkamp Perez and surrounding tribes, the Chinook Indian Nation is calling on new legislative allies, following an amendment proposed to the bill that would restore recognition but erase core sovereign rights.
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Comedy, Community, And The Evening Star
dk echo-hawk, Pawnee citizen and adopted Athabascan, comedian, musician, DJ, writer, visual artist, host and founder of Indigik’were builds community through bold art and joyful rebellion.
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‘Release the Pain We Carry:’ Scenes from MMIR Day of Awareness and Action
Underscore spent the day documenting images and interviews in Portland, where crowds gathered to honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives by raising awareness with signs and speakers while providing space for healing through ceremony.
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One Branch At A Time: 2025 Herring Egg Harvest
Alaska Natives celebrate spring by eating and sharing eggs across the state.
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Reporter’s Notebook: A Week at the AP Climate Storytelling Workshop
Jarrette Werk, an Underscore reporter and photographer, recounts his experience as one of 10 Indigenous affairs reporters invited to participate in the workshop at the 2025 Skoll World Forum held March 31-April 4 in Oxford, United Kingdom.
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‘I Want to Change the Film Industry’
Kazsia Connelly, an 18-year-old citizen of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, plans to pursue a career in acting and help create a world in which strong, multi-faceted Indigenous characters are a part of mainstream media.
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New Center Providing Comprehensive Youth Services Opens in Spokane
The NATIVE Project, serving the Indigenous community and beyond in the Spokane region, celebrated the opening of its Children and Youth Services Center in March.
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Nooksack Eviction Exposes Gaps in Native Property Rights
Olive Oshiro, a disenrolled Nooksack citizen, died before the four-year legal battle with Nooksack Indian Tribe to keep her home of two decades was over. Nooksack ordered her family’s eviction by April 1, but she may have owned her home as far back as 2020 if there had been proper oversight by the state Housing Finance Commission.
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A ‘Decolonized Approach’ to Law
Molly Washington started her own law firm, N’dee Law LLC, in 2024 and hopes to use her practice to bring an Indigenized lens to law and inspire future generations of Indigenous law practitioners.
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Oregon Bill Could Empower Tribes to Remove State Control
Proposal would simplify patchwork laws governing jurisdiction on tribal lands.