Like many activities at Seattle’s Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, the forest garden land and community tending event began with a ceremony. With a small group of volunteers huddled around her, ...

The largest Dungeness crab ever caught in Oregon was rumored to be from a stretch of coastal land south of Yachats back around the 1930s, according to historian and tribal council member Robert Kentta ...

Julie Johnson, Lummi Nation, co-chair of the Native Vote committee at the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI), addresses those gathered to vote on resolutions at the ATNI annual convention ...

From left Michael Running Wolf, Northern Cheyenne and Lakota; Leonard Forsman, Suquamish Tribe; Elaine Harvey, Yakama Nation; and Johnny Buck, Yakama Nation sit on a panel about AI and data centers ...

IHS director Mark Cruz outlines request for a departmental increase in funding; assistant secretary of the Interior William Kirkland looks to hire 400 new BIA employees; tribal leaders share concerns ...

Volunteers and attendees of the Inaugural Indigenous Food summit held in Portland skinning a cougar as part of the cougar hide tanning course on Sept. 9, 2026. (Photo by Lyric Aquino, Underscore ...

Traditional knowledge keepers from across the Pacific Northwest came together for two days to explore food sovereignty, culture plants, medicines and politics.

At a bi-annual tribal nation summit held May 2, 2023, (left to right) Muckleshoot tribal Chairman Donny Stevenson, Monisha Harrell with the Office of Mayor Harrell, Seattle City Councilmember Debora ...

From left, Theo Wright, Klamath and Oglala Lakota, smiles as his dad, Asa Wright, Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin, helps add the final touches of his regalia. This year, Theo was the head Two-Spirit ...

Red dresses sway in the breeze at Heron Park in Springfield, Oregon on May 7, 2025 during an "Poetry in the Park" event held in honor of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women's Day. (Photo by Brian Bull ...

A piece of bull kelp that washed ashore on Rosario Beach in Washington in July 2026. Bull kelp has been used by coastal tribes in Washington as food, tools and toys among other creative practices. In ...