Oregon’s TAP program is housed under Business Oregon, the state’s business development agency, and it is funded biennially through the state’s budget. It received $4.8 million during the 2023-2025 ...

A project 23 years in the making, the Yurok Tribe and Western Rivers Conservancy jointly achieved the largest land back deal in California’s history this May. With over 47,000 acres of ancestral lands ...

Nika is a journalist with a passion for working to center the voices and experiences of communities often left behind in mainstream media coverage. Of Osage and Oneida Nations descent, with Northern ...

In an April 10 email press release, the Chinook Indian Nation announced that they are actively seeking a new legislative champion to support their efforts for federal recognition. The pivot is due to ...

In addition to serving in the Gulf War as a Navy Intelligence Officer, Sams has worked for more than three decades in tribal, state and federal government, as well as in the nonprofit natural resource ...

A stretch of land in Southern Oregon with historical significance — including the likely location of a treaty signing and near the site of a massacre — is returning to the Confederated Tribes of ...

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.

Shuína Skó resides on their maternal homelands of the Marsh people of Klamath Tribes in present-day Southern Oregon. Their great-great-great-great-grandfather, Chinchallo MukHas, was an original ...

This story was originally published by High Country News. It was produced for s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting and with assistance from . “It is because ...

Editor’s note: Support for this reporting came from the Poynter Institute with funds from the Gill Foundation. Read other stories in this series here and here. Families and community members passed ...

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 ...

On Friday July 12, 2024 Patricia Whitefoot, Twapat, was presented with an honorary doctorate degree from Washington State University for her lifelong work as an educator and activist. L to R: Noel ...