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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The Sanger Scene/YouTubeLast week marked the deadline for California schools to comply with a state law that prohibits the use of culturally insensitive terms for Indigenous groups as school names or mascots. -
Roberto Rosales/Tierra Adentra Growth CapitalPresident Trump has made substantial efforts to curb renewable energy development. The Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Colorado managed to bring a big solar project online anyway.
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For more than a century, federal boarding schools worked to forcibly assimilate Native American children into white culture. Here's how one Santa Fe school has worked to change that legacy. -
Federal regulators are taking public comment on a proposal to remove two Eel River dams and build a new water diversion system for the Russian River. -
State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified. -
Cal State campuses have mixed records in returning Native remains and artifacts to tribes. Campus officials say they are working diligently to follow legal mandates but the process can be arduous, especially for non-federally recognized tribes. -
The Stillaguamish Tribe in Washington state has been buying land in its traditional territory and removing levees. The goal is to turn farmland into wetlands with the hopes of restoring Chinook salmon. -
The fire scars in Oregon forests tell a story, and it’s a familiar one to Indigenous communities. -
In March, wildlife researchers and members of the Yurok Tribe celebrated a potential milestone in the California condor’s return to Northern California skies. But on Thursday biologists with the Northern California Condor Restoration Program announced this egg may have met an uncertain fate. -
Newsom promised to help a Native tribe restore sacred salmon to their ancestral river. Now California is ending the funding. -
The funding could send more Sacramento River water to farmers in California's Central Valley, but opponents warn the project could harm rivers, fish and sacred sites. -
Commissioners called the transfer of land in Humboldt County to local tribes "environmental justice." -
Celinda Gonzales of the Yurok Tribe worked to prevent suicides among Native Americans after experiencing loss in her family. She “was a friend to many,” the tribe said. -
The California Energy Commission has dealt the final blow to a proposed wind farm in Shasta County.
