An Indigenous fisherman describes how to hook a salmon, the meaning of life and his faithful dog Sturg.
Items by B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster
The Yakama Nation is fighting a pumped hydro storage development near Goldendale, Washington – but it’s just one of many.
Tribal nations say the decision to reduce water flow on the Klamath River “has more to do with potatoes than it does fish.”
The Karuk Tribe’s first-of-its-kind training seeks to extinguish hypermasculinity in firefighting culture.
Take a look back at the changes in Indian Country over 2022.
Will the show stop its whiteness from sabotaging its own premise?
Today, FERC ordered PacifiCorp to surrender the dam license, the final hurdle after 20 years of studies and advocacy.
The first Native national parks director talks tribal co-management, historical accuracy, harassment, and the fallacy of “wilderness.”
Despite dams, drowned waterfalls and industrial degradation, the practice of eeling persists.
As dam removal inches into view, fish have to survive increasingly compounding calamities.
Number one: Why are Indians spray-painting my Starbucks?
Landslides of ash have poisoned tens of thousands of fish in the already-imperiled river.
Native advocates share their hopes and relief after decades of fighting for their ancestral lands.
Willamette Falls used to be a public place of laughter and sharing. It could be again, if painful politics don’t eclipse revitalization efforts.
Chemicals dumped in the 1970s are still seeping into the food chain. But the Yurok Tribe is confident their birds will be OK.
Hunters, dairy farmers, utility operators, loggers, government agents and conservationists have all supported the tribe in helping North America’s largest land-based birds.
After decades of back-and-forth with federal authorities, the matrilineal descendants of Chief Seattle want federal recognition, once and for all.
Western landscapes and their names are stratified with personal memories, ancestral teachings, mythic events and colonial disturbances.
A researcher explains why she’s using settler-colonial methods to interrogate settler-colonialism in national parks.
In Washington, 18 place names with the ‘sq—’ slur are being changed to names like ‘Columbia.’ State officials say that’s not good enough.
Staving off attempts by Republican officials to talk about Russia, tribal leaders spent the morning in D.C. highlighting the benefits of co-management plans and tribal sovereignty.
The historian who found the map says it exposes an ‘aggressive’ colonizer.
Oregon’s horse racing authority acknowledged the Oregon Department of Justice’s opinion, but the Flying Lark isn’t folding just yet.
A new report shows tribal communities have adapted to meet the needs of their people in ways that state and federal governments can’t.
Cooperative efforts between tribes and non-Native institutions are helping conserve the under-researched Devonian darlings.
Using horse-racing laws, a shadowy state agency and a billionaire push for a private casino that threatens tribes’ self-sufficiency.
Social media has helped undo centuries of colonial disconnection, but Native communities need a much better platform.
An illustration of a complex ecosystem that could exist again.
A new Native American restaurant plates a contemporary take on precolonial gastronomy.
The Umatilla leader would be the first Native person in charge of the agency, which has a thorny history with tribes.
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