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 salmon ceremony is celebrated by Humboldt Area Peoples Archive in an interactive display at the Humboldt County Visitors Bureau in Eureka.
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Redbone's hit cracked the Billboard Top 5 this month in 1974. It was a first for a band with all Native and Mexican American members — but the song itself had a quietly political message, too.
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On Monday, Humboldt County’s Hoopa Valley Tribe removed its chairman, accusing him of gross negligence, among other charges.
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As part of a plan to address energy inequities across the country, the federal government recently announced $72 million would be spent on connecting tribal communities with reliable, renewable energy. A little over $7 million of that funding is allocated to four tribes in California, including the Yurok Tribe.
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Students talk about preparations for the annual SOU Queer Indigenous Gathering
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In recent years, there’s been an increase in museums and universities throughout the country returning ancestral remains and sacred objects to tribal nations.
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The council will hold a special meeting in March to discuss removing their top official.
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A Navajo musician has begun performing a song that will last as long as the Navajo Long Walk, the forced removal of the tribe from their desert homelands in the 1860s.
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The governors of Oregon and Washington, and four Native American tribal leaders gathered at the White House on Friday to celebrate last year’s agreement to avoid litigation over dams in the Columbia River Basin.
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Anthropologists are reconsidering possessing artifacts that belong to surviving cultures.
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Bend's High Desert Museum is currently displaying an exhibition on Maxville, provided by the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center.
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous People recently held a second MMIP Summit and Day of Action in Sacramento, to get further attention from federal and California state leaders.
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As the fentanyl crisis ravages Native American communities, some of their leaders want tribal police and courts to go after non-tribal dealers. But they can't without getting permission from Congress.
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The Quinault Indian Nation in Washington state is gradually moving the village of Taholah away from a rising Pacific Ocean. Other communities in the U.S. may need to take a similar approach.