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Eight people in hardhats and high-visabilty at the scene of a train derailment in front of a band of yellow caution tape. A trestle bridge is slightly out of focus in the background.

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BNSF Fuel Train Derails on Swinomish Reservation

by Richard Arlin Walker March 21, 2023July 17, 2024

The estimated 3,000-gallon diesel leak comes as BNSF and tribe head to court in a right-of-way dispute.

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Portland Art Museum Changes Policy After Karuk Mother Speaks Out

by Jarrette Werk, Underscore + Report for America March 17, 2023July 17, 2024

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.

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Inupiaq Musher Ryan Redington Wins Iditarod

by Richard Arlin Walker March 16, 2023July 17, 2024

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

Signage at the Portland Art Museum announcing Jeffrey Gibson-Oscar Howe art exhibit.

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Portland Art Museum Apologizes, Revises Policies After Employee Tells Indigenous Visitor to Remove Traditional Woven Baby Carrier

by Catalina Gaitán March 15, 2023July 17, 2024

Employee told an Indigenous woman she was not allowed to wear the carrier while visiting an exhibit of Native American art at the museum.

Three adults, walking two dogs past a totem pole made by a non-Indigenous artist at at Victor Steinbrueck Park at sunset

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Two Pike Place Totem Poles to Be Removed, But Maybe Not for Good

by Luna Reyna March 14, 2023July 17, 2024

Despite controversy, the 50-foot cedar poles could be reinstalled before Seattle’s Victor Steinbrueck Park reopens this fall.

This scene is from the short, live-action film, "Ivalu," which tells the story of a Greenland Inuit girl who is shaken by the disappearance of her sister. The Indigenous film is nominated for an Oscar in 2023. (Photo courtesy of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences)

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Two Indigenous Films Vie for Academy Awards

by Sandra Hale Schulman March 10, 2023July 17, 2024

Short international films rooted in Native issues received nominations for the Oscars.

X’unei Lance Twitchell sits at a table in front of a blank whiteboard in his Intermediate Tlingit II class.

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Does AI Have a Place in Tlingit Language Revitalization?

by Clarice Larson March 8, 2023July 17, 2024

Alaska Native language professor estimates only about 200 speakers are actively using the Lingít language.

An old, well-maintained brick building, known ast he Old Main Union Hall at Western Washington University at Bellingham, Washington. Surrounded by trees and a green lawn. by Flickr User Jasperdo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

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Western Washington University Hasn’t Returned Vast Majority of Indigenous Remains

by Hailey Hoffman and Julia Lerner March 3, 2023July 17, 2024

Three decades after a federal law required institutions to return “cultural items” and remains to their Indigenous nations, Western Washington University still possesses a vast majority of its collection. Western was among the more than 600 institutions nationwide in possession of more than 210,000 remains, according to the Repatriation Database released by ProPublica in January.

People

‘Our Profit Is in the People’

by Jarrette Werk, Underscore + Report for America February 28, 2023July 17, 2024

When Bobbie Hill returned home from treatment for addiction, she knew she wanted to do something to help others on their journey to sobriety. So she started a business.

Two red brick columns joined by wrought-iron archway with a cross at the apex in front of the Wounded Knee Cemetery

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Wounded Knee Legacy Lives on 50 Years Later

by Kalle Benallie, ICT February 27, 2023July 17, 2024

The AIM occupation of 1973 endures in a new generation of Native activists at Standing Rock and other protests.