Coverage of issues facing Native people, here in our region and around the country.
JPR's studios are on the campus of Southern Oregon University (SOU), which is located within the ancestral homelands of the Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa peoples. In recognition of this history, SOU has adopted a Land Acknowledgement Statement that honors the sovereignty and rich cultural heritage of indigenous people.
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MPSharwood/WikiCommonsDuring the government shutdown, disruptions in food aid rippled across reservations. Both residents and tribal officials had to make tough choices, and are still feeling the financial impacts. -
Erik Neumann/JPRDeveloped with tribal voices and community stories, the curriculum helps teachers connect Native American knowledge beyond history class to science, art and other subjects.
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The game that's now known as lacrosse was a powerful and healing tradition in many Native American communities. It had largely disappeared but an effort to bring the game back has taken root.
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The remnants of a typhoon have forced over a thousand people to evacuate from rural villages in Western Alaska. Many of those leaving are Alaska Native people with generations-long connections to the land.
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NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. After a cultural genocide, he says, living your life becomes an existential question. His new memoir is We Survived the Night. -
The Klamath Tribes walked out of an intergovernmental summit this week over what they say are issues that the state of Oregon has failed to address. -
LaRonn Katchia joins the Exchange. -
Students at the Klamath County school will have new language classes this year because of a partnership with the Klamath Tribes. -
On the new album Woodland Songs, Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate and the Dover Quartet collaborate on music with deep American roots. -
Youth descend a free-flowing Klamath River after biggest dam removal project in history. -
Judith Surber and Justin Maxon join the Exchange to discuss their collaborative OPED in the New York Times. -
Four dams fell. Now, Indigenous youth are paddling the Klamath from source to sea, reclaiming a river — and a part of themselves. -
President Trump pulled the federal government out of Columbia River management deal. -
President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the federal government out of what Northwest tribes have hailed as a historic agreement to recover salmon in the Columbia River Basin.
