Balancing motherhood, art and activism, Tracy Rector has empowered Indigenous artists to view storytelling as an act of community care. Her path shows how nurturing family and community can transform ...

With the deconstruction of the Bateman Island causeway, federal, local and state agencies, including the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Yakama Nation, hope to see an overall increase ...

MISSION — Amid reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has refused to accept tribal identification, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) are ...

The Native American Rights Fund released a fact sheet for those who are approached and detained by ICE, depending on the situation ...

Early risers set up chairs and blankets along the shore at Alki Beach in Seattle Sunday morning, preparing for the arrival of hundreds of canoes from all across the Salish Sea and beyond. One by one, ...

Grand Ronde Tribal Councilwoman Kathleen George took a deep breath. She plunged her head into the swirling water just below the second largest waterfall by volume in North America. Moments later, she ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), www.ice.gov. Photo courtesy of ICE, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Tribes across the U.S. are responding to reports of Indigenous people being ...

This June, at the end of the 2025 session, the Oregon Legislature approved $45 million for a public access project led by the Willamette Falls Trust. The envisioned project would secure access to the ...

A federal trial over access to a five-acre portion along the shore of Willamette Falls came to a close on May 6. Central to the trial is a ceremonial fishing platform built in 2018 on the rocky shores ...

Editor’s note: This story is the first installment of a series that illuminates the historical context of tribal law in the Pacific Northwest and examines cases where tribes and tribal members have ...