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After decades of courtroom drama, a document leak and years of negotiation, federal officials agreed with six Northwest tribes to restore salmon, build-up clean energy and begin studying how to replace services the Lower Snake River dams provide.
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Cadaver dogs, ground-penetrating radar and high-tech computer mapping are all employed to help reveal suspected unmarked graves at Mool-Mool, or Fort Simcoe Historical State Park, on Yakama Nation lands.
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Tribes across Oregon are reigniting their relationship with tobacco. Not just any tobacco, but the very kind their ancestors grew and used before colonization and the fur trade.
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More than 15 tribes joined together last week in Tulalip, Wash., to demand the federal government uphold their treaty obligations.
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The Klamath dam removal is uncovering painful history for the Shasta Indian Nation. But the tribe’s leaders also see a chance to recover some of their lost lands, restoring ceremony, language, and community in the process.
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For tribes throughout the nation, protecting access to culturally important foods is a top priority. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation say their first foods policy drives most of their land management decisions.
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Tribal members are once again fishing for salmon on the Elwha River. The ceremonial subsistence fishery is the first time anyone has been allowed to fish there since dam removal a decade ago.
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The federal government aims to document the experiences of Native Americans who endured forced attendance at government boarding schools
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yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective received a $100,000 grant from the city of Seattle for food sovereignty work. The group is slowly uncovering and restoring an untamed acre and a half in South Seattle, to create space for growing food and self-determination.
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An annual event in the Pacific Northwest is back on this year after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic: an intertribal canoe journey followed by a week of cultural celebrations.