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Chuck Sams, director of the National Park Service, is honored at a grand entry in the longhouse during the annual tribal Christmas Celebration on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon on Dec. 24. Sams is flanked, from left to right, by Thomas Morning Owl, general council interpreter, and Alan Crawford and Andrew Wildbill, longhouse whipmen. (Photo by Dallas Dick/Underscore.news)
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Chuck Sams talks new parks leadership role

By Underscore.newsJan 11, 2022
Colby Drake and Greg Archuleta of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde inspect a plant after a prescribed burn at Quamash Prairie, while Metro scientist Curt Zonick talks with Clifton and Christine Bruno. (Photo courtesy of Metro)
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Bridging cultural and political gaps through Indigenous first foods

By Underscore.newsNov 12, 2021
A bronze statue of Sacagawea and her infant son, Jean Baptise Charbonneau, at Fort Clatsop, near the mouth of Columbia River in Oregon. National Park Service photo by Ben Najera
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The Lewis and Clark expedition from an Indigenous perspective

By Underscore.newsNov 1, 2021
Michael Gavin, a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, died of COVID on Aug. 7, 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Gavin family/Underscore.news)
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The son and brother they could not save

By Underscore.newsSep 19, 2021
The aftermath of the Bootleg Fire—green and blackened areas—is markedly different where thinning and prescribed burns were done in partnership with Tribes and the U.S. Forest Service. (Leah Nash/Underscore.news)
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A wildfire hits home

By Underscore.newsAug 20, 2021
Mildred Quaempts and Merle Kirk hold a portrait of Mavis Kirk-Greeley, who died in 2009 after her boyfriend allegedly deliberately hit her with his vehicle on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Kirk-Greeley is Quaempts’ daughter and Kirk’s sister. (Photo by Kathy Aney, Underscore)
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Two years after Oregon’s MMIWG legislation, next steps unclear

By Underscore.newsMay 20, 2021
Toby Patrick, who hosted an Easter feast in April of 2020 that violated his tribes' COVID-19 restrictions and led to citations for 17 Native Americans, stands next to his family's canvas longhouse at his home on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. (Wil Phinney/Underscore)
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Balancing safety and tradition

By Underscore.newsMay 18, 2021
Nixyaawii Community Financial Services chief operating officer Dave Tovey (left), chief financial officer Becky Cain and business development counselor Raven Manta in the new offices near the Wildhorse Resort & Casino. The community development financial institution serves residents of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. (Photo by Wil Phinney, Underscore.news)
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Filling a financial gap in Eastern Oregon

By Underscore.newsMay 13, 2021
Clients of Roxanne Best take part in one of her paddleboard yoga classes on the Okanogan River. (Photo by Roxanne Best,  Roxography.com via Underscore.news)
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A financial lifeline during COVID-19

By Underscore.newsMay 13, 2021
A gnawed tree on the shore of the Umatilla River is the work of a beaver. Bushes and trees provide food and shelter for these nocturnal rodents. (Photo by Kathy Aney, Underscore)
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Bringing beavers back to the Beaver State

By Underscore.newsMay 3, 2021
Immunizing Pharmacist Amy Valdez puts a bandage on Venus Thornton after vaccinating her at a temporary COVID-19 vaccine site organized by the Siletz Community Health Clinic for tribal members and their families in Salem. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy for Underscore.news)
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‘Moccasin Telegraph’ finds new life as source of vaccine information

By Underscore.newsMar 21, 2021
Sam George gillnet fishes the Columbia River for salmon in October off the Stanley Rock Treaty Fishing Access Site in Hood River. Photo credit: Leah Nash:
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Salmon market slump strains Native fishers

By Underscore.newsJan 24, 2021
Left photo: Josiah Niblett (center) with friend Sammy Grayson (left)and brother Noah (right). Right photo: Hannah Schroeder (right, holding little sister Adaline Schroeder) with her family at the New Year’s Eve Round Dance in Klamath Falls. (Photos couresty of Anne Niblett and Hannah Schroeder)
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COVID-19 derails graduation plans, not resolve

By Underscore.newsSep 20, 2020
Census workers at a September drive-through tally in the community of Warm Springs. Photo by Brutis Baez/KWSO-FM
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Tribes work to beat the Census clock

By Underscore.newsSep 18, 2020
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Oregon tribes’ primary economic engines stalled by COVID-19

By Underscore.newsMay 2, 2020