Tribal officials say the process threatens cultural resources and what remains of healthy Indigenous foodways.
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MMIP Advocate Becomes First Native Member of Oregon Women’s Football Team
Kola Shippentower, Umatilla, is the first Native American player for the Oregon Ravens, the state’s tackle football team for women and nonbinary players.
Posted inReporting
State Board Won’t Weigh Treaty Rights in Oregon Resort Fight
Warm Springs officials have argued that Deschutes County approved the resort’s plans without considering how groundwater pumping to green golf courses, luxury homes and hotels could hurt fish populations protected through an 1855 treaty the tribes signed with the federal government.
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Lummi Nation Opposes BP’s $50M Purchase of Culturally Significant Land
The landscape and seascape at Cherry Point, near Bellingham, Wash. is known in the Lummi language as Xwe’chi’eXen. “For thousands of years, and continuing to this day, our people have lived here, fished here, gathered plants here, raised families here, and buried loved ones here,” said Lummi Nation Chairman Anthony Hillaire.
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Elder Profile: Patsy Whitefoot
Elder, educator and activist Patsy Whitefoot has a passion for arming the next generation with tools for change.
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Indigenous People Press on to Indigenize Museums
Indigenous consultants are pushing to decolonize or Indigenize museums and galleries for accurate identification, representation and repatriation.
Posted inLand, Land Back, Tribal Government
A Closed Juvenile Detention Facility on Traditional Chinook Indian Nation Lands May be Returned
A task force created by the Washington State Office of Financial Management may soon recommend the return of nearly 23 acres to the Chinook Indian Nation, including buildings that could support the cultural survival of the first people of that land.
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Elder Profile: Dr. Carma Corcoran
Dr. Carma Corcoran (Chippewa-Cree), director of the Indian Law Program at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., has built her career around the issue of incarceration of Native people. Corcoran applies her own research on Native traditional ways of knowing to Gentle Action Theory.
Posted inCulture, Food Sovereignty
How the Recovery of a Stolen Plant Helped One Tribe Re-Indigenize Tobacco
Tribes in Oregon are once again growing and using Columbian tobacco, a variety native to the Pacific Northwest that was all but wiped out by displacement from white settlers.
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Year in Review: Photos that Defined 2023
A look back at Underscore’s photojournalism of the year.