Jarrette is a multimedia journalist with experience in digital news, audio reporting and photojournalism. He joined Underscore in June 2022 in partnership with the national Report for America program.

Jarrette is a multimedia journalist with experience in digital news, audio reporting and photojournalism. He joined Underscore in June 2022 in partnership with the national Report for America program.

While eating lunch at one of his favorite local cafes, Ed Edmo shares a photo taken of him as a young man (center) singing in the drum circle while occupying the Portland Area Bureau of Indian Affairs ...

Underscore News + ICT ‍Yurok citizens, Save the Redwoods League employees, the National Park Service employees and California State Parks employees gathered in Orick, California on Tuesday morning. At ...

Native Nations across Turtle Island are working to ensure their citizens’ safety amid widespread reports of Indigenous people being racially profiled, stopped, questioned, and mistakenly detained for ...

In 1863, the U.S. government took the Wallowa Valley from the Nimíipuu, two years after white settlers discovered gold there. Thousands of miners and settlers invaded after the government shrunk the ...

Around 150 community members gathered on May 22 for a free performance put on by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and the Oregon Symphony, at the Center for Native Arts and Cultures, in ...

Nika is a journalist with a passion for working to center the voices and experiences of communities often left behind in mainstream media coverage.

Chinook people have fought for federal status for close to two centuries. This portrait shows what federal recognition means for the nation’s land base, healthcare, education and legal protections.

Oregon grapples with limited transparency and data gaps, as unpublicized guidelines from the federal coordinator in Oregon on missing and murdered Indigenous people and inconsistent reporting from ...

A Washington state task force voted to recommend the return of land at a former youth detention facility to the Chinook Indian Nation. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and the fiscal committees of the ...

Underscore News. 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 ...