Legal challenges protect tribal rights to traditional fishing, hunting and gathering.
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Root Down: At Warm Springs, a New Generation Leads the Feast
As the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs holds traditional first foods feasts in its ceremonial longhouses for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, tribal youth have stepped up to carry the knowledge of the many elders who passed during the pandemic.
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How Indigenous Nations Are Rebuilding Food Systems
Local food, grounded in cultural and spiritual values, forms the basis for a growing food sovereignty movement.
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Flexing Our Sovereignty: An Introduction to Underscore’s Food Sovereignty Project
Series Co-Manager Nicole Charley introduces a series of stories about traditional Indigenous knowledge and practices that honor and strengthen the relationship to the plants and animals that sustain all of us.
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Vatican Denounces ‘International Law of Colonization’
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.
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Johnson v. M’Intosh: 200 Years of Legal Misery for Native People
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.
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Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut to Return Home After Decades of Captivity
The Dolphin Company and Friends of Lolita announced a formal agreement and promise to return the orca from Florida to her home waters in the Salish Sea.
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Judge Rules BNSF Violated Agreement with Swinomish Tribe
The rail company trespassed by increasing train traffic across reservation.
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First Samish Housing Project Breaks Ground in Anacortes
‘We’ve been here since time immemorial, and we’re making a statement that we’re going to continue to be here.’
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Undoing a Life Sentence
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.