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 ...

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 ...

Many who grew up in the Pacific Northwest recognize Ed Edmo by his expressive hands and face as he tells stories, breathing life into characters like Nasho, a monster woman, and cultural tricksters ...

From left, Yakama elders Arnold Eyle, a member of the Yakama Nation Tribal Council, and Terry Heemsah Sr., a Yakama Nation Tribal Councilman and member of the Yakama Fish and Wildlife Committee, smile ...

Roxanne Best was preparing to relaunch her photography business when COVID-19 made its way to the U.S. A serial entrepreneur and member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Best ...

Underscore News + Report for America 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 ...

Underscore News + ICT Portland Tribal Relations Director Laura John announced Friday that she is stepping down. In her place is Miranda Mishan, who formerly served as the city’s tribal relations ...

A stretch of Prairie Creek, which runs through O’Rew, serves as critical habitat for coho salmon and steelhead. Ongoing restoration efforts, led primarily by Save the Redwoods League, Yurok Tribe ...

The Naselle Youth Camp, a juvenile detention facility in Naselle, Washington, closed in September 2022. The Washington State Office of Financial Management convened a task force in July to help decide ...

United States Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, has been heading an initiative to uncover unmarked graves and hidden history at boarding schools across the nation since June of 2021. Members of ...

‍ Underscore.news and Indian Country Today After the U.S. government declined to intervene to stop evictions for potentially dozens of Indigenous people disenrolled from a Washington tribe, seven of ...

Marred by over 150 years of colonization and industrialization, few people know the wonders of Willamette Falls, the second largest waterfall by volume in North America. A culturally and historically ...